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Coralburst® ( Malus 'Coralcole'):10 feet high and 10 to 15 feet wide rounded form rose-colored flowers bronze-yellow fruit.

Disease resistance: scab (fair), fireblight (excellent), rust (excellent), mildew (excellent).

Centurion® ( Malus 'Centzam'): 15 to 20 feet high and 15 feet wide narrow, upright form red flowers cherry red, persistent fruit.

Disease resistance: scab excellent), fireblight (good), rust (excellent), mildew (excellent).

Cardinal ( Malus 'Cardinal'): 15 to 18 feet high and 20 feet wide upright spreading dark purple-red foliage magenta-pink flowers deep red fruit.

Beverly ( Malus 'Beverly'):20 feet high and 20 feet wide rounded form white flowers, red fruit.Disease resistance: scab (excellent), fireblight (fair), rust (excellent), mildew (excellent).

Adirondack ( Malus 'Adirondack'): 12 to 18 feet high and 6 to 10 feet wide narrow, upright form white flowers orange-red fruit.Disease resistance: scab (excellent), fireblight (excellent), rust (excellent), mildew (excellent).

Disease resistance: scab (fair), fireblight (excellent), rust (fair), mildew (fair).

Adams ( Malus 'Adams'):20 feet high and 20 feet wide rounded form rose-colored flowers dark red, persistent fruit.

The native ranges of crabapple vary across North America. The fruit is a food source for a white variety of songbirds, migratory birds, and small mammals from squirrels to foxes. Preserves and cider can be made from the fruit. Some cultivars' wood is used for tool handles.

#CRABAPPLE ROYAL RAINDROPS FULL#

They thrive in full sun.Ĭrabapples are widely used under power lines as boulevard trees as well as landscape trees. The main preference for all cultivars is that it needs moist, well-drained slightly acidic soils. The bark on crab apples is typically gray or brown furrowed into narrow scaly ridges, sometimes having a peeling appearance.Ĭrab apple cultivars can grow in a variety of different site conditions such as valleys and lower slopes, borders of forests, fence rows, fields, and along streams in prairies. The leaves are dark green above and paler underneath, turning brown in the fall. The fruit ripens between July and November and varies in size from ¼” to 2” long or wide. The flowers vary a great deal in color, size, fragrance, and visual appeal per cultivar. It is common for the flower buds to be red and boom to pink or white 5-petaled flowers. The physical characteristics of the trees are all very similar. Crabapples bloom in the spring, bearing flowers.

Toxic to dogs, toxic to cats, toxic to horses.These cultivars are widely divergent in site characteristics, size, color, and fruit size.

Require only minimal pruning in late winter, to remove damaged, diseased or misplaced growth.Perfect as specimen plant, in city gardens or cottage gardens.Once established, it is drought tolerant. A full sun lover, this tree is easily grown in moderately fertile, well-drained soils.Noted for its excellent disease resistance, heat and drought tolerance, this easy-care flowering crabapple provides an all-season appeal and is regarded as one of the best new cultivars. Emerging glossy deep purple in spring, the uniquely shaped, deeply lobed leaves maintain their rich color through the heat of summer, and turn attractive shades of bronze, orange and purple in the fall. (0.5 cm), in late summer that persist into early winter and are prized by birds. The eye-popping blossoms are followed by abundant sparkling red fruits, 1/4 in. Draped in clusters along the branches, they stand out against the reddish-purple, cutleaf foliage. Masses of fragrant, magenta-pink single appear in mid spring. One of the prettiest purple-leafed crabapples, Malus 'Royal Raindrops' is an upright, spreading deciduous tree of broadly rounded habit with a long season of interest.