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# Apple

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Apples are the fruit of a tree of the genus Malus?, which is a member of the Rose family (Rosaceae), and have been cultivated throughout recorded history. For example, it makes an early appearance in the Bible. While there are a huge variety of different kinds of apples, the most common is M. sylvestris, which is grown commercially and is one of the most important fruits in temperate climates. It is believed to have been native to the [Caucasus Mountains]?, originally.

Among the most common varieties of apples are the "Red Delicious", "Golden Delicious", "Winesap", "Jonathan", and "McIntosh". The "Granny Smith" is also somewhat popular, though tarter than the others; it is a light speckled green and looks somewhat like the "Golden Delicious"; it is the apple used in the picture for the Apple label which produces CDs by The Beatles.

Apples can be canned, juiced, and/or fermented to produce [apple cider]?, vinegar?, and pectin?. Distilled, it produces the liquor Applejack?.

See also Apple Computer.

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