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9 Apple varieties plotted by Flavor map. Colored fields indicate harvest status. Use arrow keys to navigate, Enter for details, and Space to compare.

TsugaruHongroArisooAriwonEazyppleGamhongHonggeumFujiScilate
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Apple story

What grows from an apple seed?

A Fuji seed will not grow another Fuji. Growers use grafting to preserve a cultivar.

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Apple illustration: The forests in the apple’s past

The forests in the apple’s past

Cultivated apples have roots in diverse wild apple populations in Central Asia and Europe. That diversity still matters to breeding.

Apple illustration: A Fuji seed is a new combination

A Fuji seed is a new combination

A seed contains genetic material from the fruiting tree and its pollen parent. Its future apples will not be identical to Fuji.

Apple illustration: Grafting keeps a cultivar going

Grafting keeps a cultivar going

Growers attach a shoot or bud of the chosen cultivar to a rootstock, preserving the fruiting variety.