all of the apple

The apple is a fruit of temperate climate the most common. It's botanically a piridion (that is to say, a fruit with a rosette on the bottom, and a marked peduncle). The fruit is rounded, more or less spherical, 10 to 15 cm in diameter, and color varied depending on the variety. The apple is popular raw, or applesauce, jelly, or juice. It also goes into the composition of many sweet and savory dishes. The apple appeared on earth there are about 80 million years. We find traces of the highlands of Anatolia. Later he acclimates to the temperate regions of Europe, and then diffuses into the world. In his "History of Plants", three centuries before Christ, Greek Theophrastus already distinguished six varieties of apples. The Romans knew a good thirty. With the rise of pomology (part of arboriculture dealing with pome trees), to the late sixteenth century, there are over a hundred in France alone! In the 19th century, the rise of the apple is spectacular. It is propagated in the form of ever more tasty varieties, better adapted to a wide distribution. In 1873, the botanist André Leroy 527 describes in his dictionary of pomology. Today, at the option of crossing and many hybridizations are known polus of 6,000 varieties of apples around the world.