Apple Heart Shape

Apples (Malus) form a plant genus of the pome fruit family (Pyrinae) in the rose family (Rosaceae).

The species of the genus Apples (Malus) are deciduous trees or shrubs. They are mostly unbranched. The alternate stem leaves are petiolate. The simple leaf blade is oval to ovate or elliptic. The leaf margins are usually serrated, rarely smooth, and sometimes lobed. The pedunculate flowers of apple trees are solitary or in umbellate panicled inflorescences.

Commonly known are the more or less rounded, edible fruits. In some species they are inedible raw. The fleshy tissue normally referred to as the fruit does not arise from the ovary but from the flower axis; the biologist therefore refers to pseudo-fruits. More precisely, the apple fruit is a special form of the aggregate bellows fruit. A bellows consists of an ovary that grows together with itself. Within the pulp, the bellows-like carpel develops into a parchment-like case. The pulp itself contains, at most, scattered stone cell nests.