Malus century. Apple wood gives off a pleasant scent when burned, and smoke from an apple wood fire gives an excellent flavour to smoked foods. It is easier to cut when green; dry apple wood is exceedingly difficult to carve by hand. It is a good wood for cooking fires because it burns hot and slow, without producing much flame. Crab apple has been listed as one of the 38 plants whose flowers are used to prepare the Bach flower remedies. Malus Malus ( or ) is a genus of about 30–55 species of small deciduous trees or shrubs in the
Madagascan fruit bat those of introduced species. Madagascan fruit bat The Madagascan fruit bat ("Eidolon dupreanum") is a species of bat in the family Pteropodidae. It is endemic to Madagascar and is listed as "Vulnerable" by the IUCN because it is hunted as bushmeat. "Eidolon dupreanum" is named after the Governor of Réunion from 1864 to 1869, Marie Jules Dupré, for the help he gave to scientific researchers. The Madagascan fruit bat is found both around the coastal plain and in the inland high plateau. It has not been recorded in some areas but that is likely to be because it has not