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 the Mexican border. The experiments he performed on them turned them into animal hybrids. When Captain America tracked his operations down, Karl Malus used his symbiotic abilities to subdue Captain America and experiment on him which turned Captain America into a werewolf. Using Redwing's DNA, Karl Malus turned a Mexican teenager named Joaquin Torres into a bird/human hybrid. Upon being liberated by Misty Knight, Captain America followed and subdued Karl Malus by using Redwing's high-pitched sounds on him and remanded him to S.H.I.E.L.D. custody. While Captain America and the others that were experimented upon by Karl Malus were restored to