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1044548 - Yury Abramochkin In the virgin lands, Kazakhstan, 1960 The wild ancestor of Malus domestica is Malus sieversii. It has no common name in English, but is known in Kazakhstan, where it is native, as 'alma'; in fact, the region where it is thought to originate is called Alma-Ata, or 'father of the apples'. This tree is still found wild in the mountains of Central Asia in southern Kazakhstan. ©RIA Novosti / TopFoto
©RIA Novosti / TopFoto
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