Description | Makamik Ornamental Crabapple (Malus) a large ornamental crabapple with large flowers and large fruit. |
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Plant Type | Trees Deciduous |
Hardiness Zone | 4 |
Sunlight | full |
Moisture | average |
Soil & Site | average |
Flowers | dark red buds, purplish red flowers, fade to lighter tint, almost 2 inches |
Fruit | large, pomes, 1 inch, red |
Leaves | green |
Dimensions | 30 by 30 feet (HS) |
Maintenance | good disease resistant, some problem with scab |
Propagation | grafting |
Cultivar Origin | open pollinated seedling (1921), named in 1933 by Isabella Preston of Ottawa Canada's Dominion Agricultural experiment station |
Notes & Reference | #93-North American Landscape Trees (Arthur Lee Jacobson), #102-Flowering Crabs The Genus Malus (John Fiala), #245-Trees for American Gardens (Donald Wyman) |