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Sep 30, 2024 · Crabapple, any of several small trees of the genus Malus, in the rose family (Rosaceae). Crabapples are native to North America and Asia and are widely grown for their attractive form, spring flower display, and decorative fruits.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
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. Description
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.
Malus sylvestris, the European crab apple, also known as the European wild apple or simply the crab apple, is a species of the genus Malus, native to Europe and western Asia. Its scientific name means "forest apple".
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.
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!
Crabapples are planted for their display of spring flowers and fall fruit in parks, gardens and along streets and boulevards throughout Toronto. However, many of the apple trees you may come across in parks are common apple trees that have grown from the seed of tossed apple cores.
