Malus × platycarpa
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Credits
Julian Sutton (species), Nick Dunn (cultivars) (2021)
Recommended citation
Sutton, J. & Dunn, N. (2021), 'Malus × platycarpa' from the website Trees and Shrubs Online (treesandshrubsonline.
Genus
Common Names
- Georgia Crabapple
Synonyms
- Malus platycarpa Rehder
- Malus coronaria var. platycarpa (Rehder) Likhonos
Other taxa in genus
- Malus × adstringens
- Malus angustifolia
- Malus × arnoldiana
- Malus asiatica
- Malus × astracanica
- Malus × atrosanguinea
- Malus baccata
- Malus bhutanica
- Malus × brevipes
- Malus chitralensis
- Malus coronaria
- Malus crescimannoi
- Malus Cultivars A-B
- Malus Cultivars C
- Malus Cultivars D-F
- Malus Cultivars G-I
- Malus Cultivars J-K
- Malus Cultivars L-M
- Malus Cultivars N-Q
- Malus Cultivars R
- Malus Cultivars S
- Malus Cultivars T-Z
- Malus dasyphylla
- Malus × dawsoniana
- Malus domestica
- Malus doumeri
- Malus florentina
- Malus × floribunda
- Malus fusca
- Malus × gloriosa
- Malus halliana
- Malus × hartwigii
- Malus × heterophylla
- Malus honanensis
- Malus hupehensis
- Malus ioensis
- Malus kansuensis
- Malus kirghisorum
- Malus komarovii
- Malus × magdeburgensis
- Malus × micromalus
- Malus × moerlandsii
- Malus montana
- Malus ombrophila
- Malus orientalis
- Malus praecox
- Malus prattii
- Malus prunifolia
- Malus × purpurea
- Malus × robusta
- Malus rockii
- Malus Rootstock Cultivars
- Malus Rosybloom Cultivars
- Malus × scheideckeri
- Malus sieversii
- Malus sikkimensis
- Malus × soulardii
- Malus spectabilis
- Malus spontanea
- Malus × sublobata
- Malus sylvestris
- Malus toringo
- Malus transitoria
- Malus trilobata
- Malus tschonoskii
- Malus turkmenorum
- Malus vernalis
- Malus yunnanensis
- Malus × zumi
A putative hybrid between M. coronaria and M. domestica. Differs from M. coronaria in its larger leaves, thornless branches and larger fruits about 5 cm in diameter. (Fiala 1994).
Distribution United States Georgia to North Carolina
USDA Hardiness Zone 5-9
RHS Hardiness Rating H6
Conservation status Not evaluated (NE)
As a typically pink flowered ornamental with somewhat flattened, yellow-green fruit, this is of marginal importance, although it is often used in the American South for making preserves (Fiala 1994). Seed-raised plants vary, but only one cultivar, ‘Hoopesii’ with large flowers and almost unlobed leaves has never been at all significant; now rare and commercially extinct (Jacobson 1996; Fiala 1994), there is a specimen at Kew dating from 1937, labelled ‘M. hopsii’ (5 m × 82 cm, 2019 – The Tree Register 2020). Trees labelled simply as M. × platycarpa are occasionally seen in botanically orientated collections, for example the Arnold Arboretum, MA (Arnold Arboretum 2020) and RHS Garden Wisley (6.4 m × 48 cm in 2019; planted 1988 – The Tree Register 2020).