FRUIT WHOLESALE
Fruit – Vegetable – Tropical Fruits
Fruit – Vegetable – Tropical Fruits
Among the pome fruit rank all fruit kinds with a case including several small cores. Most kinds of pome fruit prosper best in moderate climate zones with cool winter and mild summer.
The most important commercially cultivated kinds of pome fruit are apples (Malus domestica), pears (Pyrus spp.), quinces (Cydonia oblonga and Chaenomeles spp.), pomegranates (Punica granatum) and medlars (Mespilus germanica). Other kinds of pome fruit such as chokecherries (Prunus virginiana), chokeberries (Aronia spp.), hawthorn (Crataegus spp.), juneberries (Amelanchier spp.), loquats (Eryobotrya japonica), rowans (Sorbus spp.) and sorb apples (Sorbus domestica) are found either wildly growing or used as ornamental shrubs.
Cultivation of pome fruit has a very long tradition in Europe. Apples and pears are cultivated for at least 2000 years. The originally cultivated plants from apples come from Eastern Europe and West Asia, those of the pears from East Asia