Flower Notes:
Purple;pink (Buds purple; flowers (1.5" across) bright reddish-pink, in clusters; late April to May)
Foliage Notes:
Red-Violet (Newly emerging foliage is purplish-red in the spring); Green (Summer foliage is a lustrous green tinged in purple-red; fall color variable)
Fruit Notes:
Red (Sparsely set 0.5" dia., glossy, bright red crabapples (pomes))
Soil Notes:
Well-drained heavy loam soils
Diagnostic Characteristics:
Malus has up to 3" long, simple, narrow-ovate leaves in clusters on short spurs. Buds have several imbricate scales and are usually reddish-brown with hairs protruding under scales. Fruits have multiple seeds (as compared to the single seed pit of Prunus species). The bark of mature trees is gray to brown and scaly.
