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Why would you assume that France has a diversity of apples? (they may--but I wouldn't automatically expect it) Johnny Appleseed is American. The US has a huge
by bsder 3y ago
Why would you assume that France has a diversity of apples? (they may--but I wouldn't automatically expect it)
Johnny Appleseed is American. The US has a huge diversity of apple trees based on locality.
However, like so many things, said diversity is seasonal. There is a good reason for pressing apple cider--you need to do something with the enormous number of apples you couldn't eat directly.
If you want apples out of season, you're only going to see the mass-manufactured ones.
- nasmorn 3y agoVery true. In Austria you can still get a lot of heritage apples but mostly in the fall. Some varieties don’t keep well at all.
- noSyncCloud 3y agoWhat does Jonny Appleseed have to do with anything? Apples are native to central Asia, not the Americas. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple?wprov=sfla1 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple?wprov=sfla1
- bsder 3y agoThe point is that Johnny Appleseed actively spread apple cultivars over a very wide geographic area (Pennsylvania, Ohio, Illinois, Indiana, and parts of West Virgina and Ontario). Since these cultivars were no longer connected by breeding, they changed characteristics over several centuries giving rise to an absolutely enormous diversity of local apple types in the US--especially since apple trees from seed are kinda unstable genetically.
- WrongAssumption 3y agoHow is where they are native to relevant prevalence and diversity?