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Pink Beauty
type: Ornamental
summary: An ornamental crab with pale pink flowers. Fruit ripens mid season and drops soon after.
identification: Small, oblong shape with extended calyx. Fruit is dark red with pink blush. Very long stem.
characteristics: The flesh is red. Not suitable for consumption
uses: Used as an ornamental crabapple.
origins: Developed by Agriculture Canada at its Morden Research Station in Manitoba (Canada) by crossing Malus baccata with Niedzwetzkyana in the mid-1900s.
cultivation: Produces abundant flowers in the spring and crabapples in the fall.
harvest: Fruit ripens in the middle of the fourth period and drops soon after.
ploidism: Diploid.
harvest period: 4
flowers: Pink buds open into intense pink blossoms. Single blossom.
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