Flowering Crabapple

Description

This crabapple was selected by Hub Tures & Sons Nursery, Kingston, Illinois, from open-pollinated Malus sargentii. Outstanding characteristics include a dense, wide-spreading habit, excellent disease resistance, dark rose to rose-magenta flower buds, abundant pink-tinted flowers (with excellent weather resistance) and attractive red-tinted foliage. Good for espalier hedges. Fruit production is minimal to none. The plant grows 8' to 10' in height with a 10' to 12' spread in 15 years.