Hall's apple
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Hall's apple ( Malus halliana ) |
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Halls apple ( Malus halliana ) is a deciduous tree -type from the genus of apples ( Malus ) in the family of Rosaceae (Rosaceae).
description
Hall's apple is a small tree that can grow to a height of around 5 meters. The treetop is loose and expansive. The lanceolate leaves are about 5 cm long and 1.5 cm wide; they sit on a carmine-red stem about 1 cm long. When budding, the leaves are reddish. The upper side of the leaf is glossy dark green, the underside lighter with a fine dark red border.
The flower buds are red, the open flowers are dark pink in color. The flowers sit on a stalk about 3 cm long; The peduncle and calyx are purple. The spherical apple fruits are 6 to 8 mm in size and red-brown.
The number of chromosomes is 2n = 34, rarely 51.
distribution
The home of Hall's apple is China ; however, no wild occurrences are known. After Europe , the tree was about Japan introduced. It is seldom planted in Central Europe .
Systematics
The first description by the German botanist Bernhard Adalbert Emil Koehne was published in 1890.
swell
- Alan Mitchell, translated and edited by Gerd Krüssmann: The forest and park trees of Europe: An identification book for dendrologists and nature lovers . Paul Parey, Hamburg and Berlin 1975, ISBN 3-490-05918-2 .
Individual evidence
- ^ Malus halliana at Tropicos.org. In: IPCN Chromosome Reports . Missouri Botanical Garden, St. Louis
- ↑ Gatt. Pomac. 27. 1890. See entry at GRIN .
Web links
- Short description of nature at Plants for a Future (Engl.)
- Entry in the Flora of China (English).