Malus pumila Miller (Q4609)

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Malus pumila is a synonym of Malus domestica (Suckow) Borkhausen nom. cons.
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Malus pumila Miller
Malus pumila is a synonym of Malus domestica (Suckow) Borkhausen nom. cons.

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    taxon/id/Malus pumila Miller
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    Orchard or common or paradise crabapple (English)
    pommier commun (English)
    Flowering Apr–May; fruiting Jul–Oct.
    thickets
    forests
    fields
    fence edges
    shores
    roadsides
    St. Pierre and Miquelon
    c Asia
    also in Mexico
    Central America (El Salvador)
    Central America (Guatemala)
    South America (Argentina)
    Europe
    e Asia
    Africa (South Africa)
    Pacific Islands (New Zealand)
    Pacific Islands (Tristan da Cunha)
    Australia
    Trees, 20–100 (–150) dm.
    Stems 5–30 cm diam.;
    bark dark gray or gray-brown, scaly;
    young branches dark-brown or reddish-brown, densely tomentose, becoming glabrous;
    flowering shoots becoming spurs, 40–150 mm.
    Buds dark red or purple, ovoid, 3–4 (–5) mm, scale margins densely puberulous.
    stipules deciduous, lanceolate, 3–5 mm, apex acuminate;
    petiole 10–35 mm, tomentose to sparsely pubescent;
    blade elliptic, ovate, or broadly elliptic, (2–) 5–10 × (1–) 3–6.5 cm, base broadly cuneate or rounded, margins unlobed, obtusely serrate, sometimes serrate-crenate, apex acute, abaxial surface glabrescent, adaxial densely puberulent.
    Panicles umbellike;
    peduncles absent;
    bracteoles deciduous, filiform, 5–7 mm.
    Pedicels 10–25 mm, puberulous.
    Flowers 30–40 mm diam.;
    hypanthium tomentose;
    sepals reflexed at flowering, triangular-lanceolate or triangular-ovate, 6–8 mm, equal to or longer than tube, apex acuminate, surfaces tomentose;
    petals (rose in bud) white, sometimes pink, obovate, 15–25 mm, claws 1 mm, margins entire, apex rounded;
    stamens 20, 9–10 mm, anthers yellow before dehiscence;
    styles 5, basally connate less than 1/2 length, 9–10 mm, slightly longer than stamens, basally gray-tomentose;
    Pomes green, yellow, or red, pure, striped, or blushed, globose or depressed-globose, 20–50 (–70) mm diam., skin with bloom or wax, sometimes russetted or dotted, cores enclosed at apex;
    sepals persistent, erect;
    sclereids absent.
    2n = 34 (51, 68).