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

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 ...

N.Y. Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, left, tastes an NY1 apple alongside its breeder, Susan Brown, professor of horticultural sciences, at the 2010 New York Farm Days event in Washington, D.C.

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 ...

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.

Mountain apples are a fast-growing tree and can reach 50-60 feet when mature. It can be grown easily from cuttings or air ...

WA 64, a new apple hybrid, needs a real name. And Washington State University thinks you, the public, might be able to help pick the best one. Washington State was granted a “plant patent” for ...