Description | Sargent Ornamental Crabapple is low growing wide spreading Flowering Crab with white flowers. |
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Plant Type | All Plants, Trees Deciduous |
Hardiness Zone | 4-7 |
Sunlight | full |
Moisture | average |
Soil & Site | average |
Flowers | red buds open to fragrant white flowers. |
Fruit | 1/3-1/2" dark red pomes, reported to be an alternate year produced of fruit, a good food source for birds. |
Leaves | dark green |
Stems | horizontal branching |
Roots | fiborous |
Dimensions | mounded wide spreading reaching 6-8 feet high by 1 to 1 1/2 times spread. |
Native Site | Japan |
Cultivar Origin | Introduced in the US in 1892 by the Arnold Arboretum. Grown from seeds collected in Mororan in Hokkaido Japan by C.S. Sargent. |
Author's Notes | If you are looking for a low growing wide spreading ornamental crab Sargent Flowering Crab or any of it's newer cultivars will fill that spot. |
Notes & Reference | #01-Manual of Woody Landscape Plants (Michael Dirr), #102-Flowering Crabs The Genus Malus (John Fiala) |