The fruits of subfamily Maloideae are, by definition, pomes. The outer flesh, exterior to the "core", comes from hypanthium tissue, while everything inside the "core" comes from ovary tissue.

Photos of Malus pumila, common apple, taken by K. R. Robertson at Curtis Orchard, south of Champaign, Illinois.

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