Scientific name: Malus domestica Borkh.
Common name: Apple
Description
Habit: A tree, to 10 m high.
Leaves: Alternate, up to 10 cm long, short stalked, hairy when mature, undivided or pinnate, oval, shallowly toothed.
Flowers: White to pink, actinomorphic, hermaphrodite, 3 cm across, in corymbs on hairy pedicels; calyx of 4-5 sepals; petals 4-5, free; stamens numerous; with hypanthium.
Fruits: A pome or an apple, consisting of 5 membranous carpels embedded in fleshy calyx-tube and receptacle, more than 2.5 cm across.
Twigs: Reddish brown, not spiny.
Bark: Greyish brown to purplish brown, peeling in thin flakes.
Habitat: Hedges and rocky ground.Distribution: Occasional on the limestone, not recorded elsewhere.
Native status: Not native; naturalised
Of conservation interest: No