Today more than half of all newly developed fruit varieties have gobbledygook for official names, such as WA 38, Code 3X97 or Burpeachthirtysix.

Some 350 years ago, Milton's epic chronicled the Fall of Man, wrought by the red fruit. Except that it might've been a fig or peach or pear. An ancient Roman made a pun – and the apple myth was ...

Nearly 4,000 names – and counting ... .The contest is sponsored by the Minnesota Landscape Arboretum, which is amazed by the public enthusiasm for naming an apple now known as MN447.

The apple is a bicolored symmetrical fruit with a pink/red blush on a yellow background. Recently, WSU finalized a partnership with the International New Varieties Network to commercialize the ...

The fruit of Osage-orange is where this and the hedge-apple name comes from. Osage-orange is neither a citrus tree nor an apple, but the large, round, green to yellow fruit suggest each to some extent ...

Hedge apple is just one of the names for these trees. You might have heard them called horse apples, bois d’arc, monkey brains, monkey ball, yellow-wood, mock orange or Osage orange.

Add 1,000-plus more varieties of the fruit genus Malus, which is bursting with an autumn-themed rainbow of red, orange, yellow, green and even purple, to this scene, and you’re in the Apple ...