pommier

le pommier (FR N-M) apple tree or blossom. The apple flower symbolizes repentance, its fruit – temptation and disobedience. In the Hesperides, favored locale of the nymphs, were magic trees that bore golden apples. Hercules had the strength to vanquish the seven-headed dragon that guarded the orchard and steal the produce. The story of Adam and Eve in the Bible, book of Genesis, is Western Europe's most celebrated instance of apple-temptation, though the actual fruit probably was not an apple…