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- crabapple, any of several small trees of the genus Malus, in the rose family (Rosaceae). Crabapples are native to North America and Asia.
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Apr 23, 2013 · Crab apple (genus Malus) is a deciduous tree that differs from the orchard apple in bearing smaller, often acidic or astringent fruits. Approximately nine species of crab apples are native to North America, mostly east of the Rocky Mountains , with only one, M. fusca (Oregon or Pacific crab), being native to British Columbia .
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crabapple, any of several small trees of the genus Malus, in the rose family (Rosaceae). Crabapples are native to North America and Asia. They are widely grown for their attractive growth habit, spring flower display, and decorative fruits. The fruits are much smaller and more tart than the common apple (Malus domestica) but are suitable for jellie...
Crabapple trees are stiffer in form and spinier than the common apple. The plants are deciduous and often have attractive fall foliage. The simple ovate leaves are serrated along the margins and are borne alternately along the twigs. The fragrant white, pink, carmine, or purplish flowers appear early in showy masses—in some species and cultivars as five-petaled blossoms, in others as semidouble (having 6–10 petals) or double (having more than 10 petals) blossoms. The pome fruits often persist through the winter and are generally less than 5 cm (2 inches) in diameter.
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Certain cultivated varieties of both Asian and American crabapples are susceptible to cedar-apple rust, apple scab, and fire blight, but hybrids with tolerance or resistance to those diseases have been developed.
Outstanding Asian crabapples include the Chinese flowering crab (M. spectabilis), Siberian crabapple (M. baccata), Toringo crabapple (M. sieboldii), and Japanese flowering crabapple (M. floribunda). Among notable American species are the garland, or sweet crab (M. coronaria), Oregon crabapple (M. fusca), prairie crabapple (M. ioensis), and southern crabapple (M. angustifolia).
The showiest crabapples, hybrids derived from M. floribunda, are among the choicest small hardy decorative trees. Many have large fragrant blossoms and bear colourful fruits that persist well into winter.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
The history of our humble orchard apple (Malus domestica) is a wild and wonderful one. Like the majority of our farmed fruits and vegetables, the simple supermarket apple began life in the wild, as a fruit known as the crabapple (Malus). Grown over millennia, across the temperate Northern hemisphere, we now have over 7000 known apple cultivars!
Aug 21, 2016 · Origin of the term crab apple: The crab apple is actually the wild apple, source of all domestic apples grown today. There are two thoughts about the origin of crab in this sense. The first notes that the Scottish form is scrab or scrabbe, seemingly from a Norse source, as there is Swedish skrabba "fruit of the wild apple tree".
Only crabapples (Malus Fusca) were native to the Northwest, and they were noted during Captain George Vancouver’s voyage, when Surgeon Archibald Menzies saw wild crab apple trees at Port Discovery, May 2, 1792.
Jan 17, 2017 · British Columbia’s native Pacific crab apple (Malus fusca or Pyrus fusca), however, may look very much as the ancestors of cultivated apples did many thousands of years ago. Bearing scented blooms, edible fruit and growing to a small stature, it has much potential as a garden and landscape plant.
Malus (/ ˈ m eɪ l ə s / [3] or / ˈ m æ l ə s /) is a genus of about 32–57 species [4] of small deciduous trees or shrubs in the family Rosaceae, including the domesticated orchard apple, crab apples (sometimes known in North America as crabapples) and wild apples. The genus is native to the temperate zone of the Northern Hemisphere.
