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Katherine
type: Ornamental
summary: An ornamental crabapple tree that produces a heavy growth of pale pink double flowers in the spring and a crop of small green, blushed crabapples in the fall. The fruit holds on the tree well into winter and provide food for birds.
uses: Ornamental
origins: Probably a cross of Malus baccata and Malus halliana. Found as a chance seedling by Bernard Slavin in a public park in Rochester, New York (U.S.A.) in the late 1920s. Named in honour of Slavin's daughter-in-law, Katherine Clark Slavin.
cultivation: Upright spreading tree that grows to about 5.5 metres. Flowers early. Produces most profuse blossoms every other year. Does not do well in alkaline soil.
vulnerabilities: Resistant to scab and fireblight. Susceptible to powdery mildew and sometime cedar apple rust.
flowers: Semi-double to double. Deep pink buds. Medium pink fading quickly to white. Large.
foliage: Oval, green. Bright orange in autumn.
fruit: Greenish yellow, blushed red, very small. The fruit clings to the tree right through winter.
hardiness: 4
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