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Definition of Malus baccata
1. Noun. Asian wild crab apple cultivated in many varieties for it small acid usually red fruit used for preserving.
Group relationships: Genus Malus, Malus
Generic synonyms: Crab Apple, Crabapple, Cultivated Crab Apple
Lexicographical Neighbors of Malus Baccata
Literary usage of Malus baccata
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. An Illustrated Flora of the Northern United States, Canada and the British by Nathaniel Lord Britton, Addison Brown (1913)
"malus baccata (L.) Borck. Siberian Crab Apple. Fig. 2322. Pyrus baccata L. Mant.
1: 75. 1767. malus baccata Borck. Handb. ..."
2. China: An Interpretation by James Whitford Bashford (1916)
"Crabapple, Pyrus spectabilis (81.365); Siberian crabapple, malus baccata (FI:
225); pear: Pyrus aria (FI:254); P. aucuparia (FI :254); P. Baccata (81.262); ..."
3. Paxton's Flower Garden by Sir Joseph Paxton, John Lindley, Thomas Baines (1882)
"P. (MALUS) BACCATA. (The Berry-fruited Crab.) This is a small grower, blooming
in April or May ; the flowers are pink ; its small fruit is very ornamental. ..."
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