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TIL- apples are not indigenous to North America, nor most of Europe. They originated in Kazakhstan, in central Asia east of the Caspian Sea. The capital of Kazakhstan, Alma Ata, means “full of apples.” By 1500 BC apple seeds had been carried throughout Europe
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Does this mean Johnny Appleseed was from Kazakhstan?
Nursultan is the capital, is this another name for it?
The chapter on apples in Michael Pollan’s “The Botany of Desire” is excellent. If you plant the seeds from any apple you will grow all different trees and most will likely be inedible.