It is commonly cultivated in Liaoning, Hebei, Shanxi, Shandong, Shaanxi, Gansu, Sichuan, Yunnan and Tibet in China. It is suitable for growing on hillside terraces, plain mines and loess hills, at an altitude of 50-2500 meters. It is native to Europe and central Asia and has a long history of cultivation. It is grown in temperate regions around the world.

Original from eastern Turkey, the main varieties are from the genus Begonia (there are hundreds of varieties), one of which is the short-branched type - a dwarf compound variety bred to improve fertility. China, the United States, and France are the leading apple producing countries (tons), while the leaders in yield (tons/hectare) are France, Italy, the United States, and Turkey.

China is a major apple producer, accounting for 65% of total apple production. Main varieties: Shaanxi Luochuan Fuji, Shaanxi Yanchuan Fuji; Gansu Tianshui Huaniu Apple, Shandong Red Star, Shanxi Wanrong, etc.

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Apples are native to central and southeastern Europe, Central Asia, West Asia and Xinjiang of China. In Europe in 300 BC, M.P. Cato had recorded apple varieties. Later, the Romans began to cultivate and reproduce by grafting.

In the 18th century, J.B. Montessori and T.A had used natural hybridization to breed seedlings and gradually promoted cultivation. After the discovery of the New World in America, European immigrants introduced apples to the Americas and cultivated many new varieties in the Americas.

During the Meiji Restoration era, Japan introduced apples from Europe and the United States. Since then, Oceania and Africa have also introduced apples. In the past hundred years, apple cultivation has been established in five continents of the world. The earliest Europeans had eaten apples and improved and bred them. Some varieties appeared more than 2,000 years ago. Before colonizing the Americas, there were hundreds of known varieties in Europe.

With the wave of immigrants in North America, seedling apple varieties also spread everywhere, becoming roving emissaries of local legends, playing a major role in the spread of apples, the most prominent of which is John Chap Mann, who was nicknamed "Apple Guy," grew apples extensively in Ohio and Indiana. Indians and trappers may have also spread the apple.

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