The Red Delicious is a cultivar of apple. It is the most widely grown apple in the world, red with darker red streaks, and five "points" on the bottom. This Osteospermum Pink Whirls is a successful cultivar. ... Binomial name Malus domestica Borkh. ...
The Red Delicious, like many other fruit cultivars, was a chance seedling. The legend is that a hardy seedling was found in 1868 by one Jesse Hiatt, an apple grower outside Peru, Iowa, USA. Hiatt tried to kill it, but it kept coming back, and finally Hiatt let it grow, eventually bringing its fruit to a fruit show in Louisiana, Missouri. It won first prize. All Red Delicious apples are direct descendants of this original tree. 1868 was a leap year starting on Wednesday (see link for calendar). ... Louisiana is a city located in Pike County, Missouri. ...
Honeycrisp apples were developed and released by the University of MN in 1991.
The Empire apple was developed in 1966 at the New York State Agricultural Experiment Station in Geneva as a cross between RedDelicious and McIntosh.
RedDeliciousapples look great for a long time so they are the favored choice for holiday centerpieces and wreaths." as far as this author is concerned thats a great use.
Lee said that all apples are high in the critical phytonutrients and that the amount of phenolic compounds in the apple flesh and in the skin vary from year to year, season to season and from growing region to growing region (November/December 2004 issue of the Journal of Food Science).
This notion of the apple as a symbol of sin is reflected in artistic renderings of the fall from Eden.
In the Old Testament the apple was significant of the fall of man; in the New Testament it is an emblem of the redemption from that fall, and as such is also represented in pictures of the Madonna and Infant Jesus.
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