Crabapple species

Anyone growing any of these?
Species
Malus angustifolia – Southern crabapple
Malus asiatica – Chinese pearleaf crabapple
Malus baccata – Siberian crabapple
Malus brevipes – Shrub apple
Malus coronaria – Sweet crabapple
Malus domestica – synonym for Malus pumila, Orchard apple
Malus doumeri – Taiwan crabapple
Malus florentina – Florentine crabapple, hawthorn-leaf crabapple
Malus floribunda – Japanese crabapple
Malus fusca – Oregon or Pacific crabapple
Malus glabrata – Biltmore’s crabapple
Malus glaucescens – Dunbar crabapple
Malus halliana – Hall crabapple
Malus honanensis
Malus hopa – Flowering crabapple
Malus hupehensis – Tea crabapple
Malus ioensis – Prairie crabapple
Malus kansuensis – Calva crabapple
Malus × micromalus – Midget crabapple
Malus prattii – Pratt’s crabapple
Malus prunifolia – plum-leaf crabapple, Chinese crabapple
Malus pumila – Orchard apple
Malus rockii – native to China and Bhutan
Malus sargentii – Sargent crabapple
Malus sieboldii – Toringo crabapple or Siebold’s crabapple
Malus sieversii – Asian wild or Almaty apple
Malus sikkimensis – Sikkim crabapple
Malus spectabilis – Asiatic apple, Chinese crabapple
Malus sublobata – Yellow autumn crabapple
Malus sylvestris – European wild apple
Malus toringoides – Cut-leaf crabapple
Malus transitoria – Cut-leaf crabapple
Malus trilobata – Lebanese wild apple, erect crab apple, or three-lobed apple tree
Malus tschonoskii – Chonosuki crabapple and pillar apple
Malus yunnanensis – Yunnan crabapple

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You list “Prairie” I grown a variety called “Prairie Fire” you could look up the scientific name for it to see if they are the same.

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I added a graft of this crabapple. The leaves are a little different looking than apples.

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I grow Malus fusca (sort of)- it is serving as rootstock to Kingston Black and Yarlington Mill. They are doing well!

I also have a red-leafed M. transitoria x unknown pollen parent clone called “Royal Raindrops” as a ornamental tree in the front yard. It has a somewhat different habit for how it blooms than domestic apples and crabapples. The fruit is cranberry flavored after it hangs on the tree after frosts. It would probably make a nice jam.

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I’ve grafted 4 varieties of malus sieversii that is offered by GRIN. They are only 2-3 years old so have not produced any fruit yet.

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I have 5 Flowering. The description was Robinson Flowering Crabapple…

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My dad had a collection of a dozen or so native crabs he’d collected from around east-central Alabama… all were root suckers… some M.angustifolia, some probably M.coronaria. He loved those hard little sour/astringent green apples… they’d keep all winter long stored on the unheated back porch.
I’ve got grafts and a sucker from one of his with the largest fruits growing here, though the fruits are not nearly so large as they were on the tree back home… I sure thought they were well over 2"… but not here… have not really looked at it to try to figure out which species it is.
M.ioensis - probably Bechtel crab - tree on the grounds of the community college across from my old office… I think I have a graft of it somewhere out there in the orchard/nursery beds.

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We grow Malus ionensis where I work. Very slow growing and produces small hard fruits that seem to hang all winter. Not sure if anything eats them as they never seem to soften.

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Deer will usually eat those hard, sour little fruits over the course of the winter. However, they barely even touched the bumper crop produced last year by the large AL-origin tree I’ve planted roadside at the end of my driveway.

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