Apple Tree

Apple Tree

The fruit of the apple tree is a delicious product that can have lots and lots of different uses. It can be made cider out of, it is used in many different kinds of food products, and it makes an excellent dessert. Or it can be eaten just as it is. And what we have to thank for all of this, is the apple tree.

Although grown by producers all over the world, a lot of people till enjoy having a couple of apple trees in their backyard. It doesn’t really matter if it bears any eatable fruit. It is just a pure beauty to look at during its flowering season and it is fun for the young to have an apple tree to climb in.

If you do want fruits on your apple trees, you do have to tend to them and thin down the crop if it looks like you are going to receive a big one, otherwise the apple tree might give you nothing next year. This is because the crop of apple trees can vary extremely from year to year.

The apple tree must almost always be grown in pairs because it requires another tree to pollinate it in order to bear fruit. The common bee will then do the rest of the work for you if you have two, carrying pollen from one tree to the next. If you only have one tree and still wishes to have fruit one solution is to grab flowers from wild apple trees and use for pollination.

The apple tree comes in many different shapes, kinds and forms so it is hard to say where the original apple tree came from. The tolerance of cold and possibilities to store for a long time without having the fruit loosing its nutrition has made the apple tree excellent to cultivate and signs of this has been found all over the world. It is a fact that the apple tree has been an important source of food for millennia. Guesses are though that the apple tree originated in either Asia or northern Europe.

The apple tree can be grown almost anywhere except too close to the equator. Therefore the USA, China and Argentina are the foremost producers of apple in the world. With vast plantations of apple trees these countries deliver all kinds of apples over the whole world and make a great profit of it.

The apple trees has figured in stories throughout the history, the most famous being the Bible where Eve lures Adam to eat the forbidden fruit and condemning mankind into sin. That this fruit actually was an apple is just a symbol from ages ago when the bible were translated. The Latin word for apple and evil were quite similar, and therefore it wasn’t far off to making the apple a symbol of temptation and sin. Not that there is any truth in it, how can something to come of an apple tree that delicious and tasteful be a sin.

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