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Crab-apple varieties

  • Candymint Crab-apple
    A pretty and graceful spreading tree with a mass of pink / white flowers, and small red fruits.
  • Cardinal Crab-apple
    Also known as Princeton Cardinal, a bronze-leaved crab-apple with pink-red spring blossom and red fruitlets in the autumn.
  • A large-fruited cold-hardy crab-apple developed by the University of Minnesota. Can also be eaten fresh.
  • Chestnut Crab Crab-apple
    Large cooking and dessert crab apple. Attractive, reddish bronze fruit.  Crisp, juicy sweet flesh with a pleasing nut-like flavor. Ripens over a long period.
  • A naturally dwarf bushy-crab-apple. White blossom followed by tiny golden spherical fruitlets, and yellow autumn leaf colours.
  • Comtesse de Paris Crab-apple
    A well-regarded late-flowering crab-apple with persistent yellow fruitlets.
  • Coralburst Crab-apple
    Malus Coralburst is a naturally compact crab-apple, perfect for patios.
  • Crimson Cascade Crab-apple
    A new weeping crab-apple with dusky pink blossom and small dark red fruitlets.
  • Cut-leaf crab Crab-apple
    A synonym for Malus transitoria.