Apple Flower And Fruit. The apple is a pome fleshy fruit in which the ripened ovary and surrounding tissue both become fleshy and edible. The apple flower of most varieties requires cross-pollination for fertilization.
The apple is a pome fleshy fruit in which the ripened ovary and surrounding tissue both become fleshy and edible. In ancient China people had keen love of this plant. The colorful miniature apples often stay hanging on the tree long after the leaves have dropped in the fall.
Apples are not self-pollinators so it takes at least two apple varieties growing near each other to successfully grow apple fruits.
Apple is an accessory fruit pome where the floral-tube tissue surrounding the ovary develops into the fleshy and edible region of the fruit cortex while the ovary develops into the core. This means that the pollen must travel from one flower to another before fertilization can occur. When harvested apples are usually roundish 510 cm. Apple Malus domestica fruit of the domesticated tree Malus domestica family Rosaceae one of the most widely cultivated tree fruits.