Herb. No. 207 · Rosaceae
Tian Shan wild apples; a temperate orchard from Europe to the American hillside.
Native · Central Asia
Native Also grownNow a garden plant worldwide
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Apple
Malus domestica
Fruit & vegetableHarvestCompanions
The temperate orchard fruit — cider, pie, a pocket, and a folklore about doctors that is older than the clinic.
Apple is a Central Asian tree that every temperate climate remade. Traditional use is as food and cider. Culinary ripe fruit is the path. Seeds in a pie are not a dose; a cup of crushed pips is a different, worse idea. Sprayed supermarket fruit wants a wash. This plate is a named dessert or cider variety, not a feral rootstock you cannot identify.
Flavor
From honey-floral to cider-tart, depending on the variety. A mealy apple is a storage story.
Parts used
Ripe fruit
Helpful
- A tree that pays for decades
- Keeps if the variety does
Cautions
- Disease pressure in wet climates
- Pips are not a tea
- A seedling is not the parent