Autumn 2024
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Over 400 varieties of flowering cherries, crab apples, rowans and other ornamental trees.
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Flower colour
- White
Fruit colour
- Orange
Leaf colour
- Green
Category
- Crab-apple trees
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Cornus (Dogwood) trees
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Height after 10 years
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1.5m-2.5m / 5ft-8ft
2.5m-3.5m / 8ft-12ft
3m-5m / 10ft-16ft
1
5m-8m / 16ft-25ft
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Identification
Flower colour
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Pink - light
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2
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Leaf colour - autumn
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Green
Yellow
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Flowers appear first
Leaves and Flowers appear together
Fruit colour
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Blue - dark
Bronze
Brown
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Gold
1
Green
1
Green / Red
4
Green / Yellow
Orange
1
Orange / Red
6
Pink
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Red
4
Red - dark
1
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Russet
2
Yellow
7
Yellow / Orange
1
Yellow / Red
1
White
Fruit size
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Fruit persistence
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Normal ripening
Fruit drops when ripe
Ripens over a period
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Food uses
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Bark
White
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Brown / Red
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Striated - red
Peeling
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Annual cycle
Deciduous
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Professor Sprenger
A well-proportioned crab-apple with profuse white blossom, and golden-orange fruitlets in autumn.
Fruit colour: Orange
Flower colour: White
Leaf colour: Green
Malus x zumi