Interesting Apple Facts - Part Three

• The apple does not only give New York ("The Big Apple") its nickname. Constantinople and later Vienna were also called "The Golden Apple".
• Orchard meadows provide shelter for over 5,000 animal and plant species, making them one of the most biodiverse habitats.
• The oldest apple variety is the Borsdorfer Apple. He is mentioned in the early Middle Ages around 1100 in the writings of the Cistercians of the Abbey of Pforta.
• Friedrich Schiller was inspired to write by the smell of rotting apples. Goethe visiting him, on the other hand, did not share this inclination and had to save himself from the impending fainting of the "very fatal" smell into the fresh air.
• Apples ripen up to 10 times faster at room temperature. Optimal storage conditions would be a temperature of about 3 ° C at high humidity.