Pacific Crabapple (Malus fusca): Bundle of 10

Bundle of 10

At a Glance: Pacific Crabapple is a shrub or small tree that frequents moist woods, swamps, edges of standing and flowing water, upper beaches, and often fringing estuaries. It grows 6’-40’ tall and is armed with sharp spur-shoots. Older bark is deeply fissured.

Leaves: leaves are alternate, deciduous, lance to egg-shaped. Pointed at the end, toothed with irregular lobes they turn red or yellow-orange in fall.

Flowers: 5-12 white to pink showy fragrant apple blossoms grow in flat-topped clusters on spur-shoots.

Fruit: Small, egg-shaped apples are green becoming reddish, edible but quite tart.

Growing Conditions:

References:

MacKinnon, A., Pojar, J., & Alaback, P. B. (1994). Plants of the Pacific Northwest coast: Washington, Oregon, British Columbia & Alaska. Richmond, Wash: Lone Pine Publishing.