Apple - Manchurian Crab

Cost: $23 per tree
Diameter: 5/8"+

Manchurian Crabapple
Deciduous Small Tree
Rootstock: BUD118 – semi-dwarf
Typical Mature Height: 18-22’

Zone: 5-8; keep to high ground to reduce exposure to damaging frost
Light Requirement: full sun to promote fruit production and keep leaves dry in order to minimize disease
Soils: adapts to a wide variety of soils, preferring fertile over sandy

Flower: white
Bloom Time: spring to early summer
Fruit: small crabapple

Harvest time: late September
Recommend Another Apple Variety as Pollinizer? no, self-fertile

Uses: Pollinates other apple varieties. The white flower is a very prolific pollen producer. Blooms early and through midseason. Fruit is too small for commercial purposes, but great for wildlife forage. Rootstock vigorous and very winter hardy.