Meet The "Crab Apple" Tree

Meet The "Crab Apple" Tree

Amy: Posted on Thursday, February 26, 2015 9:09 AM

Crab Apple Trees are small deciduous trees with a broad and open crown. The fragrant flowers are white with a hint of pink or sometimes all pink. Growing in clusters of 4-6 flowers that appear with the new leaves. The leaves are coarsely toothed and green in color.

The Crab Apples fruit is small, long stalked and rather sour in flavor. They are yellow-green in color an grow in clusters of 3 to 4. The fruit is rarely eaten raw as it is sour, bitter and sometimes woody in texture. However in some Asian cultures it is used and valued as a sour condiment. There are few varieties that are sweet though not as common as the sour varieties.

  

Crab Apple has been listed as one of the 38 plants that are used to prepare Bach flower remedies, an alternative medicine practice promoted for its effect on health. Though this has not been scientifically proven to date.

Growing commonly in forest clearings, near streams in the Eastern United States (but not very far North). Ornamental varieties are grown throughout the United States.

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