Where did both Apples and Onions come from.?!
Where did both Apples and Onions come from.?
For my spanish, they are asking where both apples and onions come from, i have to put it in either america or europe. Thanks!
Answers:
http://www.actahort.org/books/484/484_1....
http://www.championproduce.com/facts.htm...
http://www.onions-usa.org/about/history....
From God, He created all.
Europe. Apples originated in Kazakstan (Central Asia) - I don't know about onions.
Famous foods that originated in the Americas are potatoes, tomatoes, cocoa, chiles, winter squash, and maybe peanuts.
I can assure you that neither is a native American crop. Both apples and onions were staples in Europe and Asia long before white people discovered the "New World"; settlers brought them to the Americas.
Some of the crops that WERE native to the Americas though, are corn (maize), squash, and pumpkin.
---History---The Apple is a fruit of the temperate zones and only reaches perfection in their cooler regions. It is a fruit of long descent and in the Swiss lake-dwellings small apples have been found, completely charred but still showing the seed-valves and the grain of the flesh. It exists in its wild state in most countries of Europe and also in the region of the Caucasus: in Norway, it is found in the lowlands as far north as Drontheim.
http://www.botanical.com/botanical/mgmh/...
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onion
Origin and distribution
A. cepa (including seed-propagated onions and most shallot types) is only known from cultivation. It probably originates from Central Asia (between Turkmenistan and Afghanistan) where some of its relatives still grow in the wild. The closest among them are Allium vavilovii Popov & Vved. from southern Turkmenistan and northern Iran, with which it gives 100% fertile hybrids, and Allium asarense R.M. Fritsch & Matin from Iran; however Zohary and Hopf warn that "there are doubts whether the vavilovii collections tested represent genuine wild material or only feral derivatives of the crop."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/onion...
thousands of years ago in south america