Source: MORNING AG CLIP, 8/23/21

You take a bite out of your midday apple and it’s just perfect: the right amount of crunch, juice, sweet and sour. You imagine saving its hard brown seeds and planting them in the ground. One day you’ll have a whole tree producing apples just like this one. Or will you? There’s no reason you can’t plant a seed from your delicious Honeycrisp apple from the grocery store — but the fruit that comes from that tree will not be Honeycrisp apples. Golden Delicious, Red Delicious, Granny Smith and McIntosh are some of the most widely eaten apples in the world, but they were all discovered more than 100 years ago.

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