Crab-apple tree
See also: Apple tree (homonymy)
The crab-apple tree (scientific name: Malus sylvestris (L.) Millet. in the past Malus mitis or Malus acerba ) is a Espèce of Arbre S of the family of the Rosacée S, spontaneous in all the Europe and sometimes cultivated.
Formerly, it was thought that it was about the ancestor of the Pommier domesticates (Malus pumila), but one now knows that this one descends in fact from a species from Central Asia, Malus sieversii.
Description
The crab-apple tree is a small tree, sometimes a shrub, which can reach to the maximum 12 m in height, with even slow average growth.Its branches are thorny; its tomenteuses sheets (with short and dense hairs) in a young state becoming glabrous.
It flowers about May and its Pomme S is generally small (3 to 4 cm in diameter) with very rough savor, except for some softer variety S, which can be consumed in the form of cold or of Compote S.
It is a species Héliophile which one finds in form disseminated in wood and Forêt S in plain and mountain up to 1500 m of altitude.
It is sometimes used like Porte-greffe for the culture of varieties of Pommier domesticates.
Ecological requirements
- hydrous Requirements: mésophile
- trophic Requirements: acidocline with neutrocline
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