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.

If you plant a seed from a Gala apple, the chances are one in a hundred (or less) that the fruit produced from the tree that grows will be sweet.

Empire apples got their name because they originated in New York (the Empire State) in 1966. Created by the New York State Agricultural Experiment Station at Cornell, Empire apples are a cross between ...

The apple is a bicolored symmetrical fruit with a pink/red blush on a yellow background. Recently, WSU finalized a partnership with the International New Varieties Network to commercialize the ...

Washington State University’s new apple star has an official brand name — Sunflare. WSU apple breeder Kate Evans announced the new name for WA 64 on Dec. 10 at the […] ...

One review stated, "[W]ould spend more money on a name brand just to have the better taste." If you want to save that extra buck, we have a few suggestions for how to make store-bought apple juice ...

The explosion of crisp, commercial apple varieties in the last century doomed many other breeds into obscurity. But in a field in Kent in the UK, some of them live on. A few miles from the sea in ...

News of the competition to name the apple — currently known as WA 64 — was picked up by major news outlets across the country in a matter of hours.

Apple Rankings is an extended comedy bit, but it’s also one man’s devoted pursuit of excellence in fruit.The website is the brainchild of comedian and cartoonist Brian Frange, who admits that ...