Malus domestica – Apple

  The cultivated apple is found almost always in cultivation in orchards across the British Isles and can be found in most places where there has been any form of human habitation.

  The tree produces copious amounts of edible fruits. Its bark is brown and fissured and its branches are naturally tangled with downy twigs. Its elliptical rounded leaves are up to 13cm long with a slightly pointed tip and toothed margin. They have a slightly downy upper surface and usually a very downy lower surface. Its flowers are white or tinged with pink and can be produced abundantly in short stalked clusters. Fruits are normally larger than 5cm in diameter and are indented at the pedicel. A great variety of shapes and sizes exists.

  The specimen I have photographed is in the back garden of a semi-detached house, this is a typical place for an apple tree to be planted, as well as in orchards, parks and gardens.