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Crab apple trees
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CRAB APPLE
Malus pumila
Family ROSACElE
In woods and hedgerows the Crab Apple may be found, as a rule, as a low tree, twenty or thirty feet high, sometimes more.
The branches frequently develop thorns, which indicate relationship with the wild plums.
Its leaves are of the rounded oblong shape, an inch or two long, toothed, and on long stalks.
The flowers are borne in few-flowered umbels, and the rosy undersides of the five petais give the tree a be auty that no other species of this group possesses.
These flowers are an inch or more across, of the usual rose type; the five separate carpels are ultimately buried in the fleshy upgrowth of the flower-stalk, and become the "core" of the golden-yellow or fiery-red globular fruit, an inch or so in diameter. Their stigmas mature before the anthers, so that, as their abundant supplies of nectar induces many insects to visit them, there is sufficient provision made for cross-fertilization. The flowers usually appear in May.
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The Crab trees apple flowering period extends from June to August or September. In hedges, woods, and bushy places the Bush Vetch will frequently be found. It is a slightly hairy perennial and has Crab trees apple a creeping rootstock, which gives off numerous runners, so that an old plant forms great masses. !ts weak and straggling stems grow to a length of one to two feet Crab trees apple. The leaves consist of six to eight pairs of oval leaflets, which vary in different individuals, in some having a squarish end, in others tapering shortly. The leaf-stalkends in Crab apple trees a tendril, usually branched.
It is not a native, but having been grown in southern England for so long, it is now considered as apple Crab trees an indigene. Its great recommendation is the power to withstand cutting salt winds, and as it is readily propagated by cuttings, it has become extensively used as protective hedges for apple trees Crab seaside gardens in the localities referred to. Its flowers are minute, white or pink, clustered in a blunt spike about one and a half inches long. They consist of four Crab apple trees or five lance-shaped sepals, five petals and atapering ovary, with three or four short styles. The fruit is triangular in section.
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