Talk:Malus sieversii

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Contradiction
"For many years, there was a debate about whether M. domestica evolved from chance hybridization among various wild species. Recent DNA analysis has indicated, however, that the hybridization theory is probably false.[3] Instead, it appears that a single species still growing in the Ili Valley, on the northern slopes of the Tien Shan mountains at the border of northwest China and Kazakhstan, is the progenitor of the apples we eat today. Leaves taken from trees in this area were analyzed for DNA composition, which showed them all to belong to the species M. sieversii, with some genetic sequences common to M. domestica.

However, another recent DNA analysis[4] showed that Malus sylvestris has also contributed to the genome of M. domestica. A third species that has been thought to have made contributions to the genome of the domestic apples is Malus baccata, but there is no hard evidence for this in older apple cultivars."

This is a contradiction. The article contradicts itself. 71.162.99.236 (talk) 00:19, 2 May 2012 (UTC)
 * Fixed, I think. Nadiatalent (talk) 13:15, 2 May 2012 (UTC)
 * The other article, Malus sylvestris still shows this contradiction. I'd like to have a botanist with actual knowledge weigh in on this. Famartin (talk) 03:36, 29 September 2013 (UTC)

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Edible or not?
A recent change stated that M. sieversii is almost inedible. This is contradicted by http://www.naturalhub.com/natural_food_guide_fruit_common.htm. Nadiatalent (talk) 15:53, 13 December 2009 (UTC)

English cultivated varieties
This statement is about leaves going red in autumn, but the comparison is made with only English varieties. Do varieties in other countries behave differently? Do we not have information about this phenomenon in other countries? What is more confusing, is that so-called English varieties are grown in many parts of the world, in very different clmatic conditions - does the statement still hold true? "Unlike domesticated varieties its leaves go red in autumn: 62.2% of the trees in the wild do this compared to only 2.8% of the 2,170 English cultivated varieties" Rui &#39;&#39;Gabriel&#39;&#39; Correia (talk) 06:34, 17 December 2012 (UTC)

Thorns?
Does it have any thorns? If I remember rightly, some species of Malus do, but most don't- it would be quite diagnostic/destinctive if it does.

IceDragon64 (talk) 23:25, 3 January 2014 (UTC)