Someone mentioned to me how all the apple trees would be crab apples unless we cloned and grafted other tree types onto them?? Idk if this is even right but can someone explain apple trees to me?? I did go apple picking and saw the stumps for the trees are different from the actual tree. Also what is a crab apple? I have questions. Thanks!! Hahaha
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Compared to domestic apples, crab apples are a different but related plant. Colloquially, apples grown from seed are sometimes also called crab apples because the fruit is usually undesirable. The evolutionary strategy of wild apples is to have a wide variety of traits in the next generation because the tree can’t control where the seeds will be dropped or what the climate is going to be like in the future. On occasion, feral apple trees do produce attractive fruit and those strains get grafted to preserve the desirable qualities. I once went for a hike on an army instalation and at each training area there were apple trees where soldiers had tossed cores in the bushes. Most of the apples were hard and sour but occasionally they were not. When I found a good tree I picked a few and took them home to make a pie. The pie was amazing because it was made of a mix of apples that were unique to those trees and which you cannot buy in stores
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