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Malus sieboldii (Regel) Rehder, Pl. Wilson. 2(2): 293 293 1915. (Syn: Crataegus cavaleriei H. Lév. & Vaniot; Crataegus taquetii H. Lév.; Malus baccata subsp. toringo (K. Koch) Koidz.; Malus heterophylla SUMNER; Malus sieboldii var. incisa Koidz.; Malus sieboldii var. toringo (K. Koch) Siebold ex C.K. Schneid.; Malus toringo Siebold; Malus toringo (K. Koch) Carrière; Photinia rubrolutea H. Lév.; Pyrus esquirolii H. Lév.; Pyrus sieboldii Regel; Pyrus subcrataegifolia H. Lév.; Pyrus toringo (K. Koch) Miq.; Sorbus toringo K. Koch);
. China to Korea, Sakhalin to Japan: China North-Central, China South-Central, China Southeast, Korea, Manchuria, Sakhalin; Introduced into: Illinois, Kansas, Maryland, Massachusetts, New York, Ohio, Ontario, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Vermont, Virginia, Washington, Wisconsin as per POWO; .
Malus sieboldii (Regel) Rehd.
Syn: Pyrus sieboldii Regel.; M. tortingo Carr. Common name: Toringo crab apple
A shrub with arching branches, ovate-elliptic leaves, serrate, 3-5 lobed on young shoots; flowers bright pink 2 cm across fading whitish; fruit round red to yellow, 1.5 cm diam. Photographed from University of California Botanical Garden
. Rosaceae Fortnight: Malus Sieboldii from University of California Botanical Garden-GSSEP34/34 : 1 post by 1 author. Attachments (1)
Malus sieboldii (Regel) Rehd. Syn: Pyrus sieboldii Regel.; M. tortingo Carr.
Common name: Toringo crab apple
A shrub with arching branches, ovate-elliptic leaves, serrate, 3-5 lobed on young shoots; flowers bright pink 2 cm across fading whitish; fruit round red to yellow, 1.5 cm diam.
Photographed from University of California Botanical Garden
SK1692 02 Jan 2019 : 5 posts by 2 authors. Attachments (1) – 4 mb. Location : Jackson Height, New York, USA
Date : 24 October 2013
Altitude 25 m.
Habit : Cultivated
i think its Sour cherry what we saw, picked, ate on our urban foraging walks with leaders of the group….
very enjoyable walks in nyc. look them up if you go back again. alternately it could also be one of the dwarf cherries, prunus sp
that are known to occur in nyc boroughs
for the dwarf cherry
this an older publ for trees fruited ones in nyc
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and as to which sour cherry you have depicted??? god only knows
there are 300 varieties
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thanks for this pic
two important references for urban trees and pleasure they bring are now in efloraindia records Prunus cerasus L. ?? Prunus avium (L.) L. ?? Malus toringo (Siebold) de Vriese ??
References:
https://gobotany.nativeplanttrust.org/species/malus/sieboldii/ https://www.treesandshrubsonline.org/articles/malus/malus-toringo/ https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:60451760-2 . References:
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Malus sieboldii (Introduced- USA)
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