Apple | Fruit, Types, Nutrition, Cultivation, & Facts | Britannica

An apple is the fruit of the apple tree, Malus domestica, a widely cultivated plant of the rose family (Rosaceae). The modern apple is believed to have been domesticated from a wild apple, M. sieversii, in the Tien Shan mountains in Central Asia. The apple itself is a pome, a type of fleshy fruit. When harvested, apples are usually roundish, 5–10 cm (2–4 inches) in diameter, and some shade …

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