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|accepted_name=Malus prunifolia
|accepted_authority=(Willdenow) Borkhausen
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Theor. Prakt. Handb. Forstbot.
|place=2: 1278. 1803
|year=1803
}}
|common_names=Plumleaf or pearleaf crabapple;Chinese apple
|special_status={{Treatment/ID/Special_status
|code=I
|label=Introduced
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|basionyms={{Treatment/ID/Basionym
|name=Pyrus prunifolia
|authority=Willdenow
|rank=species
|publication_title=Phytographia,
|publication_place=8. 1794
}}
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Rosaceae;Rosaceae subfam. Amygdaloideae;Rosaceae tribe Gillenieae;Malus;Malus prunifolia
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Rosaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>subfamily</small>[[Rosaceae subfam. Amygdaloideae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>tribe</small>[[Rosaceae tribe Gillenieae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Malus]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Malus prunifolia]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 9
|mention_page=page 473, 476
|treatment_page=page 477
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Trees,</b> 30–80(–100) dm. <b>Stems</b> 5–20 cm diam.; bark purplish brown or gray-brown, peeling irregularly; young branches purplish brown and densely puberulous, becoming grayish purple or grayish brown and glabrous at maturity; flowering shoots producing spurs, (5–)10–20(–35) mm. <b>Buds</b> purplish brown, ovoid, 5–7 mm, scale margins sparsely pubescent. <b>Leaves</b> convolute in bud; isomorphic; stipules deciduous, lanceolate, 4–5 mm, apex acuminate; petiole 10–50 mm, tomentose; blade elliptic or ovate, (3.5–)5–9.5(–11) × (2–)4–5(–8) cm, base broadly cuneate, margins unlobed, acutely serrate or serrulate, sometimes doubly serrate, apex acuminate or acute, sometimes cuspidate, abaxial surface glabrous, adaxial puberulent or subglabrous. <b>Panicles</b> umbel-like; peduncles 0–2 mm; bracteoles deciduous, rare, ± middle of pedicel, filiform, 3–4 mm. <b>Pedicels</b> 20–35 mm, puberulous. <b>Flowers</b> (30–)40–50 mm diam.; hypanthium puberulent; sepals triangular-lanceolate or lanceolate, 7–9 mm, longer than tube, apex acuminate, surfaces puberulent; petals white, obovate or elliptic, 25–30 mm, claws 1–2 mm, margins entire, apex rounded; stamens ca. 20, 8–10 mm, anthers yellow before dehiscence; styles 4 or 5, basally connate 1/3 length, 9–11 mm, longer than stamens, proximally tomentose. <b>Pomes</b> yellow to dark red, ovoid or oblong, 20–25(–34) mm diam., cores enclosed at apex; sepals persistent, reflexed (erect), raised, swollen at base; sclereids sparse surrounding core. <b>Seeds</b> dark brown. <b>2n</b> = 34, 51.</span><!--

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|phenology=Flowering Apr–Jun; fruiting Aug–Oct.
|habitat=Hillsides, flats
|elevation=0–1300 m
|distribution=N.B.;N.S.;Conn.;D.C.;Ill.;Maine;Mass.;Minn.;N.H.;N.Y.;Pa.;R.I.;S.C.;Tenn.;Vt.;Va.;Wash.;Wis.;ne Asia.
|discussion=<p><i>Malus prunifolia</i> is closely related to the cultivated apple, <i>M. pumila</i>, and sometimes is used as rootstock for the latter because of its extensive root system. <i>Malus prunifolia</i> differs from <i>M. pumila</i> in having more sharply serrate leaves, glabrate or glabrous abaxial surfaces of mature leaves, relatively long pedicels, and pomes with raised, swollen, fleshy-based sepals.</p><!--
--><p><i>Malus prunifolia</i> is cultivated worldwide and utilized as grafting rootstock, as a fruit tree, and as an ornamental. The species is potentially a genetic source of cold tolerance and disease resistance for apple-breeding programs. See discussion under 4. <i>M. fusca</i> for distinguishing <i>M. prunifolia</i> from the hybrid M. ×dawsoniana.</p><!--
--><p><i>Malus</i> ×scheideckeri Späth ex Zabel is considered a hybrid of M. floribunda and <i>M. prunifolia</i> (see discussion of the latter under 8. <i>M. halliana</i>). The 'Scheidecker crabapple' is cultivated as an ornamental tree for its semidouble pale pink flowers and yellow to orange globose pomes.</p>
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name=Malus prunifolia
|authority=(Willdenow) Borkhausen
|rank=species
|parent rank=genus
|synonyms=
|basionyms=Pyrus prunifolia
|family=Rosaceae
|phenology=Flowering Apr–Jun; fruiting Aug–Oct.
|habitat=Hillsides, flats
|elevation=0–1300 m
|distribution=N.B.;N.S.;Conn.;D.C.;Ill.;Maine;Mass.;Minn.;N.H.;N.Y.;Pa.;R.I.;S.C.;Tenn.;Vt.;Va.;Wash.;Wis.;ne Asia.
|introduced=true
|reference=None
|publication title=Theor. Prakt. Handb. Forstbot.
|publication year=1803
|special status=Introduced
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|subfamily=Rosaceae subfam. Amygdaloideae
|tribe=Rosaceae tribe Gillenieae
|genus=Malus
|species=Malus prunifolia
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