Japanese Flowering Crabapple            MA-lus flo-ri-BUN-da

• Deciduous tree, 20-25 ft (6-7.6 m), crown rounded and dense, few water sprouts, (disorganized branching), few suckers.  Leaves alternate, simple, ovate to elliptic, sharply serrate margins, 5-7.5 cm long.  Blooms as leaves emerge.  Flower single, red-pink in bud, fades to light pink or white when open, 2.5-3.8 cm wide.  Fruit 13 mm, yellow to red.
• Sun, not very disease susceptible.
• Hardy to USDA Zone (4) 5
• Sun.  Not very disease susceptible.  ..."one of the best crabapples", [Dirr (1998), p. 641].
• floribunda: profusely flowering