Narrow-Leaved Crab Apple 



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coming smooth and brown, producing slender, spur- like branches; the winter buds 

 are small, blunt and brown. The leaves are thick and leathery, oblong, oblong- 

 lanceolate or ovate, 2 to 5 cm. long, sharply or bluntly pointed, narrowed at the 

 base, margin toothed or entire, dark green and shining with impressed midrib 

 above, paler and nearly smooth beneath; leaf-stalk slender, usually smooth, 2 to 2.5 

 cm. long. The flowers are rose-colored and very fragrant, appearing from March 



Fig. 376. — Narrow-leaved Crab Apple, Carnot, Penn. 



to May, 2 to 2.5 cm. across, in few-flowered cymes, on slender, somewhat glandu- 

 lar pedicels 2 to 4 cm. long; the calyx-tube is urn-shaped, the lobes triangular, 

 sharp-pointed, persistent on the fruit; petals narrowly obovate, rounded, wavy or 

 irregularly toothed; ovary and base of styles pale woolly, the latter nearly distinct. 

 The fruit is nearly globular, 2.5 to 3 cm. in diameter, 2 to 2.5 cm. high, impressed at 

 the base and apex, dark green and roughish, fragrant, the flesh hard and very sour. 



