Chinese crab apple
Malus hupehensis (Pamp.) Rehder
- light
- Sun–part
- water
- Medium
- tall
- 6.9 m
- wide
- 6.9 m
Rosaceae
Also called Tea crab apple, Flowering tea crabapple, Hupeh crab, Hupeh Crabapple, Tea Crabapple
Formerly Malus theifera, Pyrus hupehensis, Pyrus theifera, Sinomalus hupehensis
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
- C. & S. ChinaKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Light
- Full sun to part shade (3 h or more)Read from NC State Extension, one source
- Height
- 6.1 m to 7.6 mRead from NC State Extension, one source
- Spread
- 6.1 m to 7.6 mRead from NC State Extension, one source
- Water
- Average: moist, well drainedRead from NC State Extension, one source
- Flowers
- White, pinkRead from NC State Extension, one source
- Coldest it survives
- -34.4 °C (USDA zone 4a)Read from NC State Extension, one source
Not known yet: heat, hottest it survives.
In other languages (5)
- Chinese
- 野海棠, hu bei hai tang, 湖北海棠
- Simplified Chinese
- 野海棠, 小石枣, 湖北海棠
- German
- Tee-Apfel
- French
- pommier du hou-pei
- Swedish
- teapel
Where this comes from
- Wikidata, read 2026-10-25, CC0-1.0
- Kew's checklist, read 2026-10-24, CC-BY-4.0
- NC State Extension, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- Wikimedia Commons, read 2026-10-25, CC BY-SA 3.0
- 3D model: Malus hupehensis (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.