You just have to taste and experiment with each wild apple tree you find. There are no hard and fast rules identifying which are edible raw. Often a wild apple’s taste will be moderated because of hybridizing with cultivated apples. Meanwhile wild apples, which are free, feed mostly wildlife. Americans eat on average, as of this writing, 126 apples a year each. Worldwide some 55 million tons of apples are harvested annually worth some $50 billion annually. One cultivated apple that does grows in Florida is the Apple Anna, which was a chance seedling found in the Bahamas and can withstand the summer heat. Actually every commercial apple is a clone. Each Granny Smith apple today is a clone. I t was introduced to the United Kingdom around 1935 and the United States in 1972. Researchers think the now well-known green apple was a chance cross between Malus sylvestris, a European Wild Apple - perhaps from France via Tasmania - with the domestic apple M. It originated in 1868 from a chance seedling propagated by Maria Ann Smith (née Sherwood) born 1799, died 9 March 1870.
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