2023-04-20 08:38:47
The first flowers have already sprouted from the tree and it is expected that it will produce at least three apples this fall.
A botanical garden of Shanghai, Chinacan boast of having among its plants an apple tree ‘son’ of the tree that inspired Isaac Newton to formulate his law of gravity. The British physicist exposed his law of universal gravitation in 1687 and legend has it that he came to mind after an apple fell on his head from a tree on his farm.
In 2015, the enclosure received five cuttings from the British town of Woolsthorpe-by-Colsterworth, where Newton’s birth house is located. The cuttings were planted in an insulated greenhouse and last September the one that seemed strongest was replanted outside.
After receiving special care to adapt to the high temperatures and humidity of the Shanghai summer, the first flowers have already sprouted from the tree and it is expected that it will produce at least three apples this autumn, something that be celebrated with a party in which the residents will be able to come to take tya and taste the fruit.
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“Some residents want to come see the Newton apples in a few months, and they joke that they want to get hit on the head by one of them,” a worker explained. chenshan botanical gardenlocated in the west of the city.
Although some of Newton’s acquaintances confirmed that falling apple fruit did help formulate his theories of gravity, the part of the story that the apple hit the physicist’s head is considered a myth.
“We hope that these apple trees in Shanghai can inspire the future ‘Newton of China‘” He indicated the address of the venue.
The one in the Chinese city is not the only clone of the Newton apple tree spread throughout the world, as there are specimens in various parts of England or in other countries such as Argentinaand it was even announced in 2010 that a piece of wood from the tree, belonging to the archives of the Royal Society Britannicawill travel to space aboard a NASA mission.
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