Flowering Crabapple

Description

Medium-sized spreading tree with rich dark purple-green leaves. Flowers bright orange-rose in bud opening to single, orange-crimson flowers that reach about 1.5" across. Fruit deep maroon, oblong, about 1/2" wide, very showy despite its dark color, persistent, often weighing the slender branches down. Disease resistant (420). The flowers certainly are a vivid dark reddish-purple but I don't see a hint of orange (MH).