Malus baccata Malus baccata Malus baccata is an Asian species of apple known by the common names Siberian crab apple, Siberian crab, Manchurian crab apple and Chinese crab apple. It is native to much of northern Asia, but is also grown elsewhere as an ornamental tree and for rootstock. It is used for bonsai. It bears plentiful fragrant white flowers and edible red to yellow fruit of about 1 cm diameter. "Malus baccata" is native to Russia, Mongolia, China, Korea, Bhutan, India and Nepal, where it is common to mixed forests on hilly slopes at elevations up to 1500 meters (5000 feet).
Egyptian fruit bat Egyptian fruit bat The Egyptian fruit bat or Egyptian rousette ("Rousettus aegyptiacus") is a species of Old World fruit bat. Étienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire originally gave this species the specific name of "egyptiacus" in 1810, but he later revised it to "ægyptiacus". In 1992, G. B. Corbet and J. E. Hill argued that this revision was invalid and changed the name back to "egyptiacus"; the 1999 "Mammalian Species" review used "egyptiacus" as well. However, Geoffroy's revision was argued to be valid in 2001 by D. Kock. He notes that the second spelling was "accepted almost universally by the scientific community", including