Malus halliana

Halls apple (Malus halliana )

Halls apple (Malus halliana ) is a kind of deciduous tree from the kind of apples (Malus ) in the rose family ( Rosaceae ).

Description

Halls Apple is a small tree that can reach a height of about 5 meters. The tree crown is loose and spreading. The lanceolate shaped leaves are about 5 cm long and 1.5 cm wide; they sit at a crimson, about 1 cm long stem. When you shoot the leaves are reddish. The upper leaf surface is glossy dark green, the underside lighter with a fine dark red trim.

The flower buds are red, the open flowers are dark pink. The flowers sit on an approximately 3 cm long petiole; Pedicel and calyx are purple. The spherical apple fruits are 6-8 mm in size and reddish brown.

Dissemination

The home of Hall's apple is in China; However, there are no known wild resources. After the tree over Europe was introduced to Japan. In Central Europe it is rarely planted.

System

The first description by the German botanist Bernhard Adalbert Emil Koehne was published in 1890.

Swell

• Alan Mitchell, translated and edited by Gerd Krüssmann: The forest and park trees in Europe: a field guide for dendrologists and nature lovers. Paul Parey, Hamburg and Berlin, 1975, ISBN 3-490-05918-2.