Apple, Malus
spp. Mature
tree (left) and a
cluster of apple
blossoms (right)..
Welcome to the summary page for FabulousFusionFood's Edible Flowers guide to Apple Flowers along with all the Apple Flowers containing recipes presented on this site, with 1 recipes in total.
This is a continuation of an entire series of pages that will, I hope, allow my visitors to better navigate this site. As well as displaying recipes by name, country and region of origin I am now planning a whole series of pages where recipes can be located by meal type and main ingredient. This page gives a listing of all the Cornish recipes added to this site.
These recipes, all contain Apple Flowers as a major edible flower.
Apples, Malus spp represent a genus of about 30–35 species of small deciduous trees or shrubs in the Rosaceae (rose) family. The genus is native to the temperate zone of the Northern Hemisphere, including Europe, Asia and North America. Apple trees are small, typically being between 4 and 12m tall at maturity, with a dense, twiggy crown. The leaves are 3–10 cm long, alternate, simple, with a serrated margin. The flowers are borne in corymbs, and have five petals, which may be white, pink or red, and are perfect, usually with red stamens that produce copious pollen with flowering occurring in the spring. A feature of apple trees is that they require cross-pollination between individuals by insects (typically by bees, which freely visit the flowers for both nectar and pollen) and with the exception of a few specially developed cultivars self-pollination is impossible, making pollinating insects essential.
The fruit is a globose pome, varying in size from 1—4 cm diameter in most of the wild species but being up to 6 cm in M sylvestris sieversii (the Asian wild apple), and 8 cm in M sylvestris domestica (the domestic or orchard apple), and even larger in certain cultivated orchard apples. The centre of the fruit contains five carpels arranged star-like, each containing one to two (rarely three) seeds.
It's also little known that, like many other members of the rosacea family apple blossoms are quite edible. They have a delicate floral flavour and aroma and make excellent additions to salads as well as garnishes for deserts and sweet soups. Apple blossoms also lend themselves very well to being candied or preserved.
This is a continuation of an entire series of pages that will, I hope, allow my visitors to better navigate this site. As well as displaying recipes by name, country and region of origin I am now planning a whole series of pages where recipes can be located by meal type and main ingredient. This page gives a listing of all the Cornish recipes added to this site.
These recipes, all contain Apple Flowers as a major edible flower.
Apples, Malus spp represent a genus of about 30–35 species of small deciduous trees or shrubs in the Rosaceae (rose) family. The genus is native to the temperate zone of the Northern Hemisphere, including Europe, Asia and North America. Apple trees are small, typically being between 4 and 12m tall at maturity, with a dense, twiggy crown. The leaves are 3–10 cm long, alternate, simple, with a serrated margin. The flowers are borne in corymbs, and have five petals, which may be white, pink or red, and are perfect, usually with red stamens that produce copious pollen with flowering occurring in the spring. A feature of apple trees is that they require cross-pollination between individuals by insects (typically by bees, which freely visit the flowers for both nectar and pollen) and with the exception of a few specially developed cultivars self-pollination is impossible, making pollinating insects essential.
The fruit is a globose pome, varying in size from 1—4 cm diameter in most of the wild species but being up to 6 cm in M sylvestris sieversii (the Asian wild apple), and 8 cm in M sylvestris domestica (the domestic or orchard apple), and even larger in certain cultivated orchard apples. The centre of the fruit contains five carpels arranged star-like, each containing one to two (rarely three) seeds.
It's also little known that, like many other members of the rosacea family apple blossoms are quite edible. They have a delicate floral flavour and aroma and make excellent additions to salads as well as garnishes for deserts and sweet soups. Apple blossoms also lend themselves very well to being candied or preserved.
The alphabetical list of all recipes on this site follows, (limited to 100 recipes per page). There are 1 recipes in total:
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