Apples are red, round edible fruits that come from an apple tree. They mostly started existing in Central Asia, it's wild ancestor (named with the latin name of "Malus sieversii") can still be found. The apples have been grown for thousands of years in Eurasia (Or in simpler terms, both Europe and Asia) before getting introduced by the north americans by the european colonists.
silly apples :)
Apples grown from seeds tend to be more different than their parents, and the results of the said apple don't have their desired characteristics. although apple cultivars are propagated onto rootstocks, without the rootstock, they can be much larger and are much slower to fruit the crap-a-doodle out of themselves after being planted.
The word itself in english came from the Anglo-Saxon (or Old English) word of "aeppel", meaning "fruit", not to be confused with the apple itself, you little crackle-nut. It then decended to "aplaz" (Proto-Germanic) and then turned into the monstosity "h2e'bo-l" (Proto-Indo-European, I have a feeling this language can't be typed in html.) as late as the 17th century. it also turned into the generic expression of all fruits, including nuts. don't forget the Middle-English expression of "appel of paradis" meaning a Banana.
This fruit is red and round like i said before, the seeds are egg to pear shaped and the insides are yellow and quite hard, but crunchy. And remember when i said that it's a round fruit? that isn't always true, they can be round, elongated, conical (wtf is that word), or short and wide just like yo momma. it also has a stem.
now, apples aren't always gonna be red like you see in cartoons (i meant as in the skin, not the whole fruit), they can have a ground-color or an over-color, a ground-colour of an apple can be yellow, green lime or yellow-green colored and light or white-ish yellow, the over-colour of an apple can be just red, or they can be a mix of red and pink, orange, purple or brown. (as in "orange-red" or "purple-red"), now-the skin of the apple is covered in a protective layer of epicuticular wax (a wax that has hydrophobic organic compounds). now, here's as scale on how over-colored (or demonic evil) the skin of those apples can be.
This is a wild Malus sieversii apple in Kazakhstan, I think it looks tasty. Although i think it's because it's very red and because of the light being very shown. Although i think the person in that pic holding an apple litteraly consumed it, so R.I.P. apple (2014-2014)