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Cut-Leaf Crabapple

Malus toringoides
Rosaceae

Growth Habit

Tree

Description

Shrub or small tree to 8m, shoots soon glabrous. Leaves 3-8cm, ovate and crenately lobed or simple and elliptic (the latter less common and irregularly produced), glabrous except for downy venation beneath. Flowers 2cm diameter, in bunches of 3-6, white; pedicel virtually absent; calyx felted. Fruits numerous, 1.5 cm, globose to pyriform, yellow flushed red, retained into winter.

Source of plant

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USDA Hardiness Zone

5