Plant portrait of the month: European Crab Apple (1)
Every month we publish a plant portrait in the project "Crop Wild Relatives". The plant portrait of October iS European Crab Apple.
European crab apple is both an ancestor and a wild relative to our domesticated apple. It exists in almost every european country, except Iceland. Its scientific name, Malus Sylvestris,
means forest apple.
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