Irish wildflowers BSBI map

Crab-apple, Malus sylvestris, Crann fia-úll
Photographs: Ballingeary, Co. Cork

Crab-apple
Malus sylvestris
Crann fia-úll
Family: Rosaceae

Flowering June. Fruiting autumn. Deciduous small tree. Native

Clusters of pinky-white, long-stalked flowers with 5 petals. Flower stalks and outside of calyx hairless. Small, sour fruit, green ripening yellow. Small-toothed oval-lanceolate leaves are hairless underneath. Height to 10m

Throughout Ireland in woods and hedgerows but less frequent in west

Similar: Apple, M. domesticus. The calyx, flower stalks and underside of leaves are hairy. A garden escape with larger fruit

Crab-apple, Malus sylvestris, Crann fia-úll

Crab-apple, Malus sylvestris, Crann fia-úll
Crab-apple, Malus sylvestris, Crann fia-úll

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