Apple

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Apple

Siehe auch → Äpfel (Malus)

“Apples (Malus) form a genus of pome fruit plants (Pyrinae) within the rose family (Rosaceae). The genus comprises around 42 to 55 species of deciduous trees and shrubs found in the forests and thickets of the northern temperate zone in Europe, Asia and North America, from which a large number of often difficult-to-distinguish hybrids have also emerged. By far the best-known and most economically important species worldwide is the cultivated apple (Malus domestica). In addition, some species native to East Asia with fruits only about the size of a cherry, such as the Japanese apple (Malus floribunda), the cherry apple (Malus baccata) and Malus ×zumi, are planted in temperate climates as ornamental shrubs and trees. Not to be confused with apples are pomegranates (Punica granatum), which are not closely related."

Glossary entries from the Agricultural Course, GA 327 by Rudolf Steiner

Cosmic influences on apple growth

1. “For if you have apricots or plums with a delicate flavour, this delicate flavour, just like the colour of the blossoms, is the Cosmic force that has risen up into the fruit. In the apple you are actually eating Jupiter; in the plum you are actually eating Saturn.” (Lit.: GA 327, p. 57)
2. “What we extract, for example, from the apple, from the peach, what we then eat as fruit flesh, all of that stems from these planetary influences far removed from the Earth.” (Lit.: GA 327, p. 152)

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