Photographs: Ballingeary, Co. Cork

Crab-apple Malus sylvestris Crann fia-úll Family: Rosaceae Flowering June. Fruiting autumn. Deciduous small tree. Native Clusters of pinky-white, long-stalked flowers with 5 petals. Flower stalks and outside of calyx hairless. Small, sour fruit, green ripening yellow. Small-toothed oval-lanceolate leaves are hairless underneath. Height to 10m Throughout Ireland in woods and hedgerows but less frequent in west Similar: Apple, M. domesticus. The calyx, flower stalks and underside of leaves are hairy. A garden escape with larger fruit

Crab-apple, Malus sylvestris, Crann fia-úll