The apple tree

📖 In short

The apple is one of the best-known and best-loved fruits. It's round and crunchy, red, green or yellow, sweet or a little sour. There are thousands of kinds of apples, growing in most mild countries.

🤩 Did you know?

The world produces tens of millions of tonnes of apples every year.
Some kinds of apple ripen 140 to 170 days after pollination.
China is the world's biggest apple producer.
An apple floats on water because about a quarter of it is air!

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🌟 From blossom to apple

In spring the apple tree is covered in pretty white and pink blossom. Bees visit and pollinate it, then the petals fall and a little apple starts growing where the flower was.

🔍 A star inside!

Cut an apple across instead of top to bottom and look at the middle: you'll see a five-pointed star with the seeds inside!

💡 Newton's apple

The story goes that the scientist Isaac Newton saw an apple fall from a tree and wondered: why does it always fall down? From that he understood the force of gravity.