Apple: Malus x Purpurea

A family of red leaf crab apples, with deep pink blossoms and dark purple wood.

• Vigour: Medium
• Precociousness: Medium
• Resistances: Shows resistance to powdery mildew (anecdotal)
• Size of fruit: Crab
• Flowering: Early (know to bloom multiple times per season)
• Fruiting: Early
• Cropping: Medium to heavy
• Ploidy: Diploid (?)
• Fruit colour: Purple
• Flesh colour: Red to purple (?)
• Leaf colour: Deep Red (maturing to dark green in late season)
• Parentage: Unknown (wild)
• Descendants: Eleyi Crabapple, Aldenhamensis Crabapple, 'Echtermeyer'
• Biennialism: None observed
• Growth habit: Upright (not columnar)
• Self-fertile: Yes

First described in late 1800s Orleans, France, it's vibrant pink flowers and deep red leaves led to it being used as parentage to a wide family of ornamental crab apples.

NOTE: No details are documented of the flavour, specific fruit size, nor true confirmation of the fruit flesh colour. As such this entry will be updated when my own tree fruits