Sweet Crab Apple

Common name: Sweet Crab Apple

Scientific name: Pyrus coronaria

Dimensions:
  Flower: About 2" (5 cm) wide
  Plant height: Up to 30 feet
(10 meters)

Blooming period: May-June

Habitat: Fields, thickets, woodland edges

Description: Clusters of several pink-fading- to-white flowers on branches surrounded by finely toothed, oval leaves; numerous (20 +) stamens with pink or salmon-colored anthers. Leaves 1 1/2-4" (4-10 cm) long, egg-shaped (ovate) to triangular-ovate to sometimes broadly lance-shaped (lanceolate), toothed, often with a few triangular lobes at the widest part. Native species hybridize with each other and with common apple trees. Fruit greenish, almost spherical. Rose family. Native of Eurasia. Rose family. (May 25)