Citation: Miller, Gard. Dict. edn 8:no. 1 (1768).

Synonymy: Pyrus malus L. var. sylvestris L., Sp. Pl. 479 (1753).

Common name: Apple, wild crab apple.

Description:
Small tree, sometimes spiny below, deciduous; twigs and young growth densely pubescent; leaves stipulate, petiolate, ovate to broad-elliptic, entire, crenate to serrate, acute to shortly acuminate, pubescent below, glabrescent above.

Inflorescence corymbose, on short shoots; pedicel and calyx densely pubescent; petals 5, shortly clawed, white or pink; stamens numerous, anthers yellow; styles pubescent below.

Fruit a subglobose pome, impressed above and below, glabrous, stone cells absent, green, yellowish or flushed and streaked red.

Distribution:  Widely cultivated in orchards and gardens, long surviving in abandoned sites, sparingly naturalised in higher rainfall areas of the State.   Native to Europe and south-west Asia. Conservation status: naturalised Flowering time: in late spring, Oct.

SA Distribution Map based on current data relating to specimens held in the State Herbarium of South Australia

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