Quite a search has been going on for that originary apple, but only through DNA analysis can we now with any certainty trace the paternity of the apple to the primal source -- the great apple forests of Kazkhstan (where the trees grow thirty feet high and bear one-pound fruit). Turns out there are apple prospectors out there who travel the continents in search of ancient apple germplasm -- which, when discovered, goes into frozen vaults like those kept at Cornell. If I pursue this one any further, may end up taking a bite out of a Decio variety, which the ancient Romans ate.
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