Malus floribunda Malus floribunda Malus floribunda, common name Japanese flowering crabapple, Japanese crab, purple chokeberry, or showy crabapple, originates from Japan and East Asia. It may be a wild species, or a hybrid of "M. sieboldii" x "M. baccata". "Malus floribunda" forms a round-headed, small deciduous tree with narrow leaves on arching branches. The flowers are white or pale pink, opening from crimson buds. The fruit is red and yellow, of about 1 cm in diameter. Tree has good disease resistance to apple scab and powdery mildew. The initiators of the PRI disease resistant apple breeding program have discovered that "Malus floribunda"
Malus coronaria fruit clings to the branches on clustered stems long after the leaves have fallen. "Malus coronaria" var. "coronaria"<br> "Malus coronaria" var. "dasycalyx" Pehr Kalm, who was one of the twelve men whom Linnaeus called his apostles and sent forth to explore the vegetable world, wrote from America: Malus coronaria Malus coronaria, also known by the names sweet crabapple or garland crab, is a North American species of "Malus" (crabapple). It grows primarily in the Great Lakes Region and in the Ohio Valley, with outlying populations as far away as Alabama, eastern Kansas, Long Island, and Ontario. "Malus coronaria" often is