Flower Notes:
Pink;white (Buds; flowers 1.5" across, pink-tinted white, and borne terminally on the branches; May (a late flowering crabapple))
Foliage Notes:
Green (Summer foliage); Yellow (Fall color)
Fruit Notes:
Red (Up to 0.5" dia. deep red crabapples (pomes); persistent)
Soil Notes:
Well-drained heavy loam soils
Diagnostic Characteristics:
Simple, elliptical leaves (up to 2" long) 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.
