Scientific name: Malus sylvestris (L.) Mill
Common name: Crab Apple
Description
Habit: A tree, to 10 m high with a round crown.
Leaves: Alternate, up to 10 cm long, with a short stalk, hairless when mature, undivided or pinnate, oval, shallowly toothed.
Flowers: White to pink, actinomorphic, hermaphrodite, 3-5 mm across, in corymbs on hairless 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, up to 2.5 cm across.
Twigs: Reddish brown, spiny, hairy when young.
Bark: Greyish brown to purplish brown, peeling in thin flakes.
Habitat: In or near established and old woods, rarely in hedges. Distribution: Occasional.
Native status: Native
Of conservation interest: No