Kazakhstan’s Almaty, the ancestral home of apples

Almaty (Kazakhstan), May 17 (EFE), (Camera: Madina Abdrashitova y Muhtar Holdorbekov).- Springtime takes on a special meaning along the foothills of the Alatau mountains surrounding the southern Kazakh metropolis of Almaty, a region botanists have confirmed as the ancestral home of apples and at this time of year the scene of spectacular efflorescence.
 
Between the end of April and the beginning of May, southern Kazakhstan plays host to a wonderful display of nature: apple blossom season, with thousands of apple trees sprouting billions of pale, pink sapphire-colored petals that emit a light, rose hue across the countryside.
 
Here grows the progenitor of all the apple trees on Earth, a wild species named in honor of German botanist Johann Erasmus Sievers who discovered it in 1796.

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