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Malus × floribunda
Also called Japanese Flowering Crabapple, Japanese crab apple, Japanese Crab, Japanese Flowering Crab Apple, Purple Chokeberry, Showy Crab Apple
A round-headed, deciduous flowering tree grown mainly for its spring blossom and small autumn fruit. Give it full sun and well-drained soil, and it is a reliably hardy ornamental.
Malus floribunda, common name Japanese flowering crabapple, Japanese crab, purple chokeberry, or showy crabapple, originates from Japan and East Asia. It may be a hybrid of M. toringo with M. baccata, in which case it would be written as Malus × floribunda.
Pillar Apple · Southern crab apple · Sweet crab apple · Oregon Crab Apple · Hall crab apple · Chinese crab apple · Caucasus Apple · Plumleaf crab apple · Sargent's apple · Apple · Asiatic apple · European Crab Apple
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Malus floribunda by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts and the care summary drawn from them are shared under the same licence.
The care summary was written by AI (Claude, Anthropic) from the sources on this page, with general growing knowledge where they are silent. Check before relying on it.
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.
