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crab apple?
I thought crab apple was a full blown tree with small green apples, no? -- Thanks, Erik |
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On 29 Feb 2004 04:29:21 -0800, (Marin) wrote:
crab apple? I thought crab apple was a full blown tree with small green apples, no? Yes, a 16 metre high tree when full grown. http://www.british-trees.com/guide/crabapple.htm -- Knowledge is knowing a tomato is a fruit; Wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad |
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On 29 Feb 2004 04:29:21 -0800, (Marin) wrote:
crab apple? I thought crab apple was a full blown tree with small green apples, no? Yes, a 16 metre high tree when full grown. http://www.british-trees.com/guide/crabapple.htm -- Knowledge is knowing a tomato is a fruit; Wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad |
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In article , Marin
writes crab apple? I thought crab apple was a full blown tree with small green apples, no? A crab apple was originally a wild apple tree species which had small, sharp tasting apples about the same as cherries. Over many hundreds of years, gardeners (in the widest sense) have carried out selective breeding, aiming for big and juicy fruit, and as a result many hundreds of dessert and cooking apples have been developed, as well as cider apples. And other gardeners were selectively breeding for purely ornamental purposes, so that now there are many ornamental varieties of crab apple, for example, 'John Downie' with red fruits and 'Golden Hornet' with bright yellow fruits. So, I suppose a working definition might be that a crab apple is an apple with small fruit grown for mainly ornamental purposes. -- Kay Easton Edward's earthworm page: http://www.scarboro.demon.co.uk/edward/index.htm |
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In article , Marin
writes crab apple? I thought crab apple was a full blown tree with small green apples, no? A crab apple was originally a wild apple tree species which had small, sharp tasting apples about the same as cherries. Over many hundreds of years, gardeners (in the widest sense) have carried out selective breeding, aiming for big and juicy fruit, and as a result many hundreds of dessert and cooking apples have been developed, as well as cider apples. And other gardeners were selectively breeding for purely ornamental purposes, so that now there are many ornamental varieties of crab apple, for example, 'John Downie' with red fruits and 'Golden Hornet' with bright yellow fruits. So, I suppose a working definition might be that a crab apple is an apple with small fruit grown for mainly ornamental purposes. -- Kay Easton Edward's earthworm page: http://www.scarboro.demon.co.uk/edward/index.htm |
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