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Malus spectabilis
Also called Chinese Crab, Chinese Flowering Apple, Chinese Crab Apple, Chinese Flowering Crabapple
Malus spectabilis, the Asiatic apple, is a flowering crabapple tree from China grown mainly for its showy white or pink spring blossom. It needs full sun, well-drained soil and a cold winter to flower well.
Malus spectabilis (Chinese: 海棠; pinyin: hǎitáng) is a species of crabapple known by the common names Asiatic apple, Chinese crab, HaiTang and Chinese flowering apple.
It is endemic to China and native to the provinces of Hebei, Jiangsu, Liaoning, Qinghai, Shaanxi, Shandong, Sichuan, Yunnan, and Zhejiang.
Pillar Apple · Southern crab apple · Sweet crab apple · Japanese Crabapple · Oregon Crab Apple · Hall crab apple · Chinese crab apple · Caucasus Apple · Plumleaf crab apple · Sargent's apple · Apple · European Crab Apple
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Malus spectabilis 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.
