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SCI & TECH● LOW1h ago · Oct 5, 2026, 12:59 PM

Is Kazakhstan the birthplace of apples? Here’s how the fruit spread across the world

EuroNews [en] · global

The part of the Tian Shan mountains that stretches from south-eastern Kazakhstan to Kyrgyzstan is home to the wild Sievers apple (Malus sieversii), the ancestor of every apple we know today. But how did it travel from Central Asia to orchards around the world?

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