Today more than half of all newly developed fruit varieties have gobbledygook for official names, such as WA 38, Code 3X97 or Burpeachthirtysix.

If you're on the lookout for something refreshing, mildly sweet, and surprisingly healthy, meet the rose apple—a tropical ...

Some 350 years ago, Milton's epic chronicled the Fall of Man, wrought by the red fruit. Except that it might've been a fig or peach or pear. An ancient Roman made a pun – and the apple myth was ...

Nearly 4,000 names – and counting ... .The contest is sponsored by the Minnesota Landscape Arboretum, which is amazed by the public enthusiasm for naming an apple now known as MN447.

Apple names some of its most opaque holding companies after kinds of apples. Apple is a vast company, with hundreds of subsidiaries, and operations in most countries. But the companies named after ...

Hedge apple is just one of the names for these trees. You might have heard them called horse apples, bois d’arc, monkey brains, monkey ball, yellow-wood, mock orange or Osage orange.

The fruit of Osage-orange is where this and the hedge-apple name comes from. Osage-orange is neither a citrus tree nor an apple, but the large, round, green to yellow fruit suggest each to some extent ...

Between 2019 and last year, Apple, the world’s most valuable public company, worth $2.6 trillion, filed 215 trademark oppositions to defend its logo, name or product titles, according to the ...

But whether the forbidden fruit was an apple, fig, peach, pomegranate or something completely different, it is worth revisiting the temptation scene in Book 9 of Paradise Lost, both as an homage to ...