A mysterious fruit tree in your yard might not be what it seems. Subtle differences in color, bloom, and shape can reveal its true identity.

CALDWELL — George Raino and Richard Uhlmann have been hunting for a prize that could be hidden in plain sight. As co-founders of the Lost Apple Project‘s Idaho chapter, Raino and Uhlmann investigate ...

In a chilly wing of a Boulder greenhouse, apple trees have begun to sprout. The growing trees are the focus of the Boulder Apple Tree Project, which aims to identify, study and preserve historic apple ...

LEELANAU COUNTY, MI -- Take a bite out of history while visiting Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore this fall. Orchards within the Port Oneida Historic District in the national park have heirloom ...

In this Oct. 23, 2019, photo, apples collected by amateur botanists David Benscoter and EJ Brandt of the Lost Apple Project, rest on the ground in an orchard at an abandoned homestead near Genesee, ...

Mother Nature has us in a waiting game as to when she will let us get out in the garden and begin the new garden season. However, for people like Dave Benscoter and the folks involved in the Lost ...

Apple picking season is in full swing and, thanks to excellent growing conditions in 2025, trees in private gardens and community orchards across the UK are yielding bumper crops this autumn, ...

When Jude Schuenemeyer picked the apple up off the ground in December 2017, he wondered whether his two-decade search was over. It was a firm winter apple, orange in colour with a distinctive ribbed ...

On Verona Island, at the end of a dirt road, a couple dozen wizened apple trees stand sentry in a grassy field sloping down to the river. To the untrained eye, it's a bunch of old trees. To apple ...

The Malus coronaria learned to fight frost by blooming two or three weeks later than the trees that produce cultivated varieties of apples like Honeycrisp or Red Delicious. A key to protecting apples ...