The center of diversity of the genus Malus is in eastern Turkey. She points out that buckets of apples were found in the Oseberg ship burial site in Norway, and that fruit and nuts (Iðunn having been described as being transformed into a nut in Skáldskaparmál) have been found in the early graves of the Germanic peoples in England and elsewhere on the continent of Europe, which may have had a symbolic meaning, and that nuts are still a recognized symbol of fertility in southwest England. Ellis Davidson links apples to religious practices in Germanic paganism, from which Norse paganism developed. In Norse mythology, the goddess Iðunn is portrayed in the Prose Edda (written in the 13th century by Snorri Sturluson) as providing apples to the gods that give them eternal youthfulness.
One of the problems identifying apples in religion, mythology and folktales is that the word "apple" was used as a generic term for all foreign fruit, other than berries. Cultivars vary in their yield and the ultimate size of the tree, even when grown on the same rootstock.Īpples appear in many religious traditions, often as a mystical or forbidden fruit. There are more than 7,500 known cultivars of apples, resulting in a range of desired characteristics. The tree originated in Western Asia, where its wild ancestor is still found today. It is one of the most widely cultivated tree fruits, and the most widely known of the many members of genus Malus that are used by humans. The apple is the pomaceous fruit of the apple tree, species Malus domestica in the rose family (Rosaceae), and is a perennial. Stock photos & stock pictures gallery of Apples.
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