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Flowering: mid April to late May

Habitat and ecology: Introduced from Asia, the cultivated apple is distributed throughout the Chicago Region, most likely by humans throwing cores on the ground after eating the fruit.

Occurence in the Chicago region: non-native

Etymology: Malus is the classic name for apple. Pumila means small.

Author: The Morton Arboretum

Common Name: paradise apple

Duration: Perennial

Nativity: Non-Native

Lifeform: Tree

Synonyms: Many, see Tropicos

Widely spreading tree to 15 m; lvs elliptic to ovate, finely serrate, convolute in bud, permanently pubescent beneath; fls white, tinged with pink, 3 cm wide; hypanthium densely tomentose, open at the mouth; anthers yellow; cal persistent; fr globose or ovoid-globose, 6-12 cm; 2n=34. Eurasian cultigen, occasionally escaped. Probably hybridizes with native crab-apple.

Gleason, Henry A. & Cronquist, Arthur J. 1991. Manual of vascular plants of northeastern United States and adjacent Canada. lxxv + 910 pp.

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