MALUS SYLVESTRIS
English : Crab apple / Wild apple
Spanish : manzano silvestre Estonian : mets-õunapuu Portuguese : macieira-brava
A tree with height from 3 to 8 meters . Bark colour is brown . Often appears more like a bush than a tree . Has thorns . The tree is rather rare but native to most European countries .
Turkish : vahşi elma ağacı
Catalan : pomera silvestre europea
Flowers Regular ( actinomorphic ), large , fragrant . Calyx-lobes five , narrowtriangular , sharp-pointed , hairy in the inner surface . Petals five , inside white , outside pink , with rounded tip . Carpels three to five , fused . Inflorescence an umbellike cluster of two to six flowers .
Leaves Borne on thorn-tipped short shoots . Long-stalked , hairless or sometimes hairy when young , blade 3 – 8 cm ( 1.2 – 3.1 in .), ovate with a tapering tip , toothed .
Fruit The stone fruit ( apple ), which is very hard . Small , 1 – 2 cm , sour , green pome . Dark brown and glossy , oval , flattened seeds within a capsule surrounded by the enlarged , fleshy receptacle .
Authors : Holger Ojaküla , Jürgen Aavik