The Flowering Crabapple is a popular small ornamental tree with an extremely showy flower display in the spring. 'Hillier' flowers and fruits well annually, but is moderately susceptible to scab. Well-drained heavy loam soils and full sun promote best growth. May look ragged at the end of the summer. […]
The Flowering Crabapple is a popular small ornamental tree with an extremely showy flower display in the spring. 'David' is an early blooming, rounded cultivar that is resistant to apple scab, powdery mildew, and Japanese beetles, but has slight susceptibility to fireblight. Tends to flower and fruit in alternate years. Well-drained heavy loam soils and […]
The Flowering Crabapple is a popular small ornamental tree with an extremely showy flower display in the spring. 'Dolgo' is a large, vigorous, early blooming cultivar that is resistant to many crabapple diseases, but is slightly susceptible to apple scab, fireblight, and leaf spot. Fruits are edible and can be used in jellies, but they […]
The Flowering Crabapple is a popular small ornamental tree with an extremely showy flower display in the spring. 'Dorothea' is a dense, rounded cultivar with semi-double blooms. However, this cultivar is not suggested for use in the landscape due to its high susceptibility to apple scab and fireblight, in addition to slight susceptibility to powdery […]
The Flowering Crabapple is a popular small ornamental tree with an extremely showy flower display in the spring. 'Doubloons' has white, double blossoms, but is susceptible to apple scab. Tends to flower and fruit in alternate years. Well-drained heavy loam soils and full sun promote best growth. Many look ragged at the end of the […]
The Flowering Crabapple is a popular small ornamental tree with an extremely showy flower display in the spring. ‘Ellen Gerhart’ is a cultivar that has single to semi-double blossoms, but it is not suggested for use in the landscape due to its severe susceptibility to apple scab. However, it has generally good resistance to other […]
‘Candymint Sargent’ has strongly horizontal branching, even more so than the straight species. Sargent Crabapples are the smallest of all Malus species, almost a shrub. Tends to be apomictic (seeds develop without fertilization), so is usually very uniform from seed (i.e. clonal). Tends to flower and fruit in alternate years. Susceptible to apple scab disease, […]
The Flowering Crabapple is a popular small ornamental tree with an extremely showy flower display in the spring. 'Cardinal' is a disease resistant cultivar with lustrous purplish-red foliage and becomes flat-topped at maturity. Tends to flower and fruit in alternate years. Well-drained heavy loam soils and full sun promote best growth. […]
The Flowering Crabapple is a popular small ornamental tree with an extremely showy flower display in the spring. This variant, introduced by the Arnold Arboretum in 1892, is not suggested for use in the landscape, as it has severe susceptibility to apple scab. Tends to flower and fruit in alternate years. Well-drained heavy loam soils […]
The Flowering Crabapple is a popular small ornamental tree with an extremely showy flower display in the spring. ‘Centzam’, frequently sold as Centurion, is a vigorous variant that produces pink flowers and persistent, glossy, bright red fruits. It is generally quite pest and disease resistant, but some apple scab susceptibility has been reported. Tends to […]
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