Common Apple Seedling - M

Malus pumila

• Grow your own Common Apple, a lovely wild tree and the most widely grown apple species in the world
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• Seed-grown on California's Redwood Coast
• Transplanting and care instructions included

About Malus pumila

Apple trees have been cherished and cultivated for thousands of years by people of many cultures from every corner of the world.

The “common” apple tree, as we know it today, is a species known as Malus domestica or, synonymously, Malus pumila. This tree comes from a wild ancestor, Malus sieversii, that grows in the mountains of Central Asia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, and northwestern China.

The amazing and generous apple tree has been one of humanity’s favorite trees — growing alongside us throughout most of recorded history. It was perhaps 10,000 years ago that farmers in the mountains of Asia first began growing and “domesticating” apple trees. From there, merchants transported apple trees and apple seeds along the legendary overland and maritime Silk Road trade routes into Europe and throughout the Western World. Greeks grew apple trees, as did the Romans after them, and long before the close of the First Century A.D., the beloved apple tree was dispersed to the far reaches of the known world.