Malus sylvestris Malus sylvestris Malus sylvestris, the European crab apple, is a species of the genus "Malus", native to Europe. Its scientific name means "forest apple" and the truly wild tree has thorns. Wild apple has an expanded crown and often appear more like a bush than a tree. It can live 80–100 years and grow up to 10 m tall with trunk diameters of 23–45 cm. Due to its weak competitiveness and high light requirement, wild apple exist mostly at the wet edge of forests, in farmland hedges or on very extreme, marginal sites. The tree is rather rare but native
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