Apples are quite tasty fruits.
Let’s find out more about the apples!
- The apples are sweet fruits.
- They grow out of the apple trees.
- The apple trees’ scientific name is Malus Domestica.
- Its genus is Malus.
- The tree originated from Central Asia.
- Its ancestor is Malus sieversii.
- Its ancestor tree can still be found.
- Currently, it is cultivated worldwide.
- Apples are of huge significance in religion and in mythology.
- They are also very important for Greek, Nordic, and European Christian tradition.
- The crabapple is the only apple that is native to North America.
- The apples come in green, red, and yellow.
- The most common color though is the red one.
- The science of apple growing is called pomology.
- Most apples are still picked by the hands.
- The harvest season is during the fall.
- The Little Red Hood is known for picking up apples.
- Apples are a great source of fiber pectin.
- One apple has 5 grams of this fiber.
- The first fruit is being produced after 4-5 years.
- Most apple blossoms are pink.
- The world’s top producer of apples is China.
- China is followed by the U.S.A, Turkey, and Poland.
- One of George’s Washington hobbies was pruning his apple trees.
- There is an old saying which says: “An apple a day, keeps the doctor away.”
- Apples are some of the most widely cultivated fruits.
- Bees pollinate the apple trees.
- An apple tree can live up to a hundred years.
- Apples can help you improve your memory!
