Actually, apple varieties are preserved via grafting. If you take an apple seed, the tree that will grow from it only has 50% of the DNA of the tree that made the apple. So there is absolutely no guarantee that the taste was preserved across generations.
Damn it! That was my bit of esoteric plant kkowlwdge
Lol me too. 30 minutes late I guess.
Likewise, fellow apple nerds.
TIL :)
Apples do not grow true from seed, you get a new variety unless you clone.
Just like humans.
It blows my mind how many apple varieties (“cultivars”) exist.
Spoiler: over 7,000!
No, it’s just over 7000.
Yeah, the other number wasn’t even close. I don’t think you’d even be able to fit that many
on earthin thesolar systemgalaxy.Sorry, I’m confused by these comments. I typed “7,000”. In the US, that translates as “seven thousand”. What is wrong with that?
It’s a joke. 7000! mathematically is 7000 factorial. Which means 7000 x 6999 x 6998…
You can see why orchard space might be a problem.
Oh… 7000! thanks.
Guy from the maths problem
I can only imagine how many useful genes that saves.
Somehow relevant xkcd: