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Malus crescimannoi, also known as the Raimondo apple, is a species of apple in the rose family, Rosaceae. Native to the island of Sicily, it was formally described only in 2008, making it one of the most recently described species of tree in Europe. Whether the species is a remnant of a preglacial diversity of apples in Europe or a distinctive race of European wild apple is at present unknown.
The species is endemic to Sicily, a characteristic it shares with other Sicilian woody plants such as the Sicilian fir (Abies nebrodensis), Mount Etna broom (Genista aetnensis) and Sicilian zelkove (Zelkova sicula). It is also the only species of apple endemic to Italy, the other two wild species (M. sylvestris and M. florentina) being more widely distributed in Europe. The species was originally described from the Nebrodi mountains near Floresta, but was more recently also identified in the Madonie Mountains. The area is recognised as the largest remaining area of Sicilian forest and is home to a number of endemic species. Malus crescimannoi occurs in plant communities dominated by oaks (Quercus cerris and Q. petraea) and European beech (Fagus sylvatica), alongside fellow medium-sized rosaceous species such as the chequer tree (Torminalis glaberrima), pears (Pyrus pyraster, P. spinosa, and P. ciancioi) and locally the closely related European crab apple, as well as hawthorns (Crataegus monogyna and C. orientalis), blackthorn (Prunus spinosa) and dog rose (Rosa canina).
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Malus crescimannoi by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts are shared under the same licence.
Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.
