Maybe some of you remember that I've been posting flower blossom photos for a while now. This was a great lesson to me as it made me realize how much I don't know about trees. I've been admiring the wonderful blossoms but that's all, I knew nothing about them.
When I started to post the first photos, I tried to identify the tree and named my first one wild cherry blossom but I'm not sure I was right. To check what I know and what I don't, I decided to pay attention to these trees after the flowering period is over and fruits start to grow.
Yesterday on my was somewhere I saw this wonderful white flower blossom and of course, I had to stop to take one (many) photos. This is a must if you like nature photography, especially because I knew this may have been an one time opportunity.
So this is the apple blossom, the white one as there are others like pink and red ones. The flowers are formed of five petals just as the other ones but these are bigger petals and I hope not so delicate to be destroyed by a shower or rain.
Apples are self-incompatible; they must cross-pollinate to develop fruit. During the flowering each season, apple growers often utilize pollinators to carry pollen. Honey bees are most commonly used. Orchard mason bees are also used as supplemental pollinators in commercial orchards. Bumblebee queens are sometimes present in orchards, but not usually in sufficient number to be significant pollinators. source
This means these trees are heaven to bees, which is a warning sign for photographers. I saw a few bees working hard but they had no business with me, nor had I with them, so no problem was caused.
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