Flowering Crabapple
Growth habit
Tree
Perennation
Long-lived polycarpic perennial
Location
Source of plant
Schmidt & Son Co.
Description
Narrow, upright tree, reaching 12' in height and 6.6' in width with a distinctive obovate growth habit, upright, gray-brown, maroon-tinged branches and leathery, dark green leaves. Flower buds dark carmine-red opening to single, heavily-textured, 1.6"-1.8" across white flowers with traces of red. Fruit subglobose, red, with half shaded to orange-red, 0.5"-0.6" across, persistent until December. Completely disease resistant (DS 420). Five hundred open-pollinted seedlings of M. halliana were artificially inoculated with Fireblight un controlled conditions; of the sixty surviving seedlings several showed field resistance to scab, cedar-apple rust, and powdery mildew during eleven years of field trial; 'Adirondack' was selected from this seedling population in 1974 by Donald Egolf and released in 1987. NA 54943 and PI 499828 (DS 674).
USDA Hardiness Zone
4
Special characteristics
disease resistance, growth habit