ROSACEAE 



Sweet Crab Apple 



Malus coronaria (L.) Mill. (Pyrus coronaria L.) 



HABIT. A bushy shrub or small tree 15-30 feet high and 

 y2-\ foot in diameter; crown broad, rounded, and bushy. 



LEAVES. Ovate to ovate-oblong; 3-4 inches long; 3-lobed 

 on vigorous shoots; sharply and deeply toothed; thin and smooth; 

 dark green above, paler below; petioles long and slender. 



FLOWERS. Handsome; fragrant; \Va-2 inches across; white 

 to rose-colored; in 5-6 flowered umbel-like racemes; appear- 

 ing after the leaves. 



FRUIT. Pome depressed-globose; 1-1 Vi inches in diameter; 

 pale to yellow-green; waxy; fragrant; flesh very tart; ripening 

 in late autumn and often hanging to the tree until spring. 



TWIGS. Rather stout; developing short, stout, often spine- 

 like spurs; red-brown. Winter buds: terminal Vq-V^ inch long, 

 scaly, bright red. 



BARK. Thin; red-brown; divided by shallow fissures into 

 broad, scaly ridges. 



SILVICAL CHARACTERS. Intolerant; rich, moist sites 

 along streams or in thickets along roads and fences; fibrous 

 roots; planted as an ornamental for its showy flowers. 



Apple 

 Malus pumila Mill. {Pyrus malus L.) 



This species, native to Eurasia, is the parent of most of our 

 cultivated apples and has escaped in many parts of North America. 

 It is stated that over 3,000 varieties of this species have been 

 developed by pomologists. The apple is a small to medium-sized 

 tree which can be identified from its unlobed, crenate-serrate 

 to entire, thick leaves which are hairy below and rolled up in 

 the bud. 



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