Apples are pome fruits, too. However, I do not recommend eating any of these raw since some are toxic and the ones that are OK to eat are rather bland.

While there is optimism over the 2025 pome fruit season in South Africa, shrinking marketing windows in key export markets ...

The pome fruits include apples and pears and share many cultural similarities and pest problems. The other major group is stone fruits (peaches, plums, apricots, nectarines and cherries), sharing many ...

Pome fruits such as apples, pears and quince are heterozygous, meaning they do not grow true to seed. If planted successfully, each seed from an apple will yield a tree that grows fruit different from ...

Pome fruit, like apple, pear, and quince benefit from painting young tree’s lower trunk and limbs with a 1:1 mixture of white interior latex paint and water.

It is a jewel of a fruit, maybe a queen. Ellen Peffley taught horticulture at the college level for 28 years, 25 of those at Texas Tech, during which time she developed two onion varieties.

On pome fruit, the industry body Hortgro said that with the 2024 harvest underway and a week to ten days earlier than anticipated, all indications were for promising apple export volumes and a ...