Wool apple
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Woolen apple ( Malus tschonoskii ) |
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The wool apple ( Malus tschonoskii ) is a plant from the genus of apples ( Malus ) in the family of Rosaceae (Rosaceae). It is native to Japan.
description
The wool apple can reach a height of up to 10 meters. In the young tree, the treetop is narrowly conical, with age it widens significantly. The leathery thick leaves are ovate to heart-shaped with a length of 10 to 12 cm and a width of 6 to 8 cm. The upper side of the leaf is glossy dark green and the underside of the leaf is hairy white. The autumn color is scarlet and golden yellow.
Four to five flowers stand together. The flower buds are pink in color. The hermaphrodite flowers are radially symmetrical and five-fold. The five sepals remain after the anthesis . The five free petals are white. The flat-spherical apple fruit has a diameter of 2 to 3 cm and is colored shiny yellow to deep red.
The number of chromosomes is 2n = 34.
distribution
The home of the wool apple is in Japan on the islands of Honshu , Kyushu and Shikoku .
Systematics
The first description of this species took place in 1873 under the name Pyrus tschonoskii by Karl Johann Maximowicz in the Bulletin de l'Academie Imperiale des Sciences de Saint-Pétersbourg. It was placed in the genus Malus in 1906 by Camillo Karl Schneider under the name Malus tschonoskii (Maxim.) . Malus tschonoskii belongs to the section Docyniopsis in the genus Malus .
use
The wool apple is suitable as a small tree as an ornamental wood in gardens, parks, squares and paths. It is gaining increasing importance as an avenue tree.
The fruits can be eaten raw or cooked. The pulp has a coarse-grained structure. The fruits are very firm, slightly juicy with a strong sour taste (rather like lemon).
literature
- Malus tschonoskii. In: Frederick G. Meyer (Berarb.), Egbert H. Walker (Berarb.); Jisaburo Ohwi: Flora of Japan. Smithsonian Institute, Washington, DC 1965, p. 548.
Individual evidence
- ^ JJ Luby: Taxonomic classification and brief history. In: David Curtis Ferree, Ian J. Warrington: Apples: botany, production, and uses. CABI Publishing Series, 2003, ISBN 0-85199-592-6 , pp. 1-14. (Google Books Online)
- ↑ a b Malus tschonoskii in the Germplasm Resources Information Network (GRIN), USDA , ARS , National Genetic Resources Program. National Germplasm Resources Laboratory, Beltsville, Maryland.
- ^ Karl Johann Maximowicz : Pyrus tschonoskii. In: Bulletin de l'Academie Imperiale des Sciences de Saint-Pétersbourg. 19, 1873, p. 169.
- ^ Camillo Karl Schneider: Malus tschonoskii (Maxim.) In: Friedrich Fedde (Ed.): Repertorium Specierum Novarum Regni Vegetabilis. Centralblatt for the collection and publication of single diagnoses of new plants. 3, 1906, p. 179.
- ↑ Small deciduous trees - Garden Academy of the Bavarian State Institute for Viticulture and Horticulture Land maintenance . ( Memento of the original from August 21, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Entry in Plants for A Future .
