Flowering crabapple
മാലസ് ബക്കാട്ട
Malus baccata (L.) Borkh.
- light
- Sun–part
- water
- Medium
- tall
- 12 m
- wide
- —
Rosaceae
Also called Siberian crab apple, Siberian crabapple, Siberian Crabapple
Formerly Pyrus baccata, Sinomalus baccata
When it flowers
Not known yet in the tropics: too few flowering observations to read a season from.
If a child, a pet or anyone may have eaten a plant, contact a doctor or vet straight away, or call the National Poisons Information Centre (AIIMS, New Delhi) on 1800 116 117, free and open 24 hours.
Something wrong with it?About it
- Grows as
- TreeKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Climate
- TemperateKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Wild in
- Siberia to N. & C. Japan and HimalayaKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Light
- Full sun to part shade (3 h or more)Read from RHS, one source
- Height
- 10 m to 14 mRead from Wikipedia, one source
- Water
- Average: moist, well drainedRead from RHS, one source
- Coldest it survives
- -20 °C (USDA zone 6b)Read from RHS, one source
Not known yet: spread, heat, hottest it survives.
In other languages (6)
- Chinese
- 林檎根, 山荆子
- Czech
- jabloň drobnoplodá
- Finnish
- marjaomenapuu
- French
- pommier à baies, pommier de Sibérie, pommier sibérien
- Simplified Chinese
- 山定子, 山荆子, 林荆子
- Malayalam
- മാലസ് ബക്കാട്ട
Where this comes from
- Wikidata, read 2026-10-26, CC0-1.0
- Kew's checklist, read 2026-10-24, CC-BY-4.0
- RHS, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- Wikipedia, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- Wikimedia Commons, read 2026-10-25, CC BY-SA 3.0
- 3D model: Malus baccata (built for Vanagrha) by Vanagrha, own
A fact “checked by a majority of its sources” was settled by a vote of the pages it was read from, not by a person reading it; one marked “one source” rests on that page alone. Anything else not marked checked has not been checked yet. Where nothing is known, the page says so rather than guess.