Malus floribunda has resistance to the apple scab and founded the program to introduce this "VF gene" into cultivated apples. Their work had been progressing with great success. This crabapple species is considered as one of the best crabapples for form and flower and has gained the Royal Horticultural Society's Award of Garden Merit. 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
Karl Malus who runs IGH, a biotech clinic that specializes in state-of-the-art reconstructive surgery. When Jessica Jones and her mother Alisa are critically injured in a car accident, Dr. Malus arranges for them to be siphoned from Metro-General Hospital to his clinic so he can save their lives. Jessica gets released after about three weeks, while Alisa's recovery takes several more years due to more extensive damage. Over the course of treating her, Dr. Malus develops romantic feelings for Alisa, and even covers up her accidental killing of one of his nurses by having a janitor take the fall for the crime.