What Is the Scientific Name for a Crabapple Tree?
Crabapple trees provide a rich and textured addition to the land. Colloquially, they are known as “jewels of the landscape” because of the brightly colored flowers and fruit they produce. Different from apple trees in that they produce fruit of two inches or less in diameter, the crabapple tree has a variety of strains within the family, each bearing the name of their genus. Each crabapple tree bears a unique name for their species. The exact scientific name of a crabapple tree would be “malus” followed by the species name. Because there are so many different types of crabapple trees, there is not one specific name for all of them.
