Flower Notes:
Pink (Attractive light pink in bud, opening to showy white flowers in late April or May)
Foliage Notes:
Green (Crisp-looking dark green foliage in summer); Yellow (Attractive yellow fall foliage)
Fruit Notes:
Red (Small but effective 0.4" dia. dark red crabapples (pomes) in fall; birds like them)
Soil Notes:
Well-drained heavy loam soil; not especially tolerant of very wet or very dry soils
Diagnostic Characteristics:
Simple leaves clustered on tips of spurs. Leaves on young rapidly growing shoots often irregularly lobed, with others entire. Disordered branching with frequent cross-branching. Bark is gray to brown and scaly on mature trees. Fruits have multiple seeds (as compared to the single seed pit of Prunus species).
