Planting a fruit tree is often requires a years-long time investment before you yield any fruit, but this option is perfect ...

Many fruit trees, including pawpaws (Asimina triloba), the majority of apples (Malus domestica), and most pears (Pyrus ...

Apple trees are not native to North America. They were first brought here by the colonists in the 1700s. ... Domesticated apples go by the scientific name "Malus domestica." ...

Then, these Malus coronaria cuttings—along with cuttings from previous hunts—will be grafted onto an apple rootstock. That will allow them to grow into trees which are identical to the original.

DNA analysis indicates that apples originated in the mountains of Kazakhstan, where the wild Malus sieversii—the many-times great-grandparent of Malus domestica, the modern domesticated apple ...

The seed from a malus domestica will produce a malus domestica apple – we are all familiar with these from the grafted tree, the orchard or the supermarket – but that is where the similarities ...

“In fact, the first recorded recipe for apple pie was written in 1381 in England, and called for figs, raisins, pears, and saffron in addition to apples,” she writes.

In 2010, researchers sequencing the genome of the domestic apple, Malus Domestica found the fruit was incredibly complex with about 57,000 genes—the highest of any plant genome studied thus far ...