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Crab apple trees

We have a huge range of crab-apple trees, grown for their attractive blossom and colourful fruitlets. Many are good pollinators for other apple trees too.

  • Admiration crab apple trees
    Also known as Malus Adirondack. A dwarf upright crab-apple with masses of light-pink / white flowers.
    £36.75 - £61.50buyBest seller
    • Self-fertility: Self-fertile
    • Blossom colour: Pink - light
    • Fruit colour: Red
    • Awards: RHS AGM (current)

  • Aros crab apple trees
    A small slow-growing upright crab-apple, with bronze-green leaves, beautiful dark pink flowers with white centres, and maroon fruits in the autumn.
    £37.95 - £62.50buy
    • Self-fertility: Self-fertile
    • Blossom colour: Pink - dark
    • Fruit colour: Red - dark
    • Awards: RHS AGM (former)

  • Barbara crab apple trees
    Malus Barbara has dark pink blossom and small purple fruitlets.
    • Blossom colour: Pink - dark
    • Fruit colour: Purple

  • Butterball crab apple trees
    Malus Butterball is named for its bright yellow fruits, which are also good for crab apple jelly.
    £36.75 - £61.50buyBest seller
    • Self-fertility: Self-fertile
    • Blossom colour: White
    • Fruit colour: Yellow
    • Awards: RHS AGM (current)

  • Cardinal crab apple trees
    Also known as Princeton Cardinal, a bronze-leaved crab-apple with pink-red spring blossom and red fruitlets in the autumn.
    £36.75 - £61.50buy
    • Self-fertility: Partially self-fertile
    • Blossom colour: Pink - dark
    • Fruit colour: Red - dark
    • Awards: RHS AGM (current)

  • A naturally dwarf bushy-crab-apple. White blossom followed by tiny golden spherical fruitlets, and yellow autumn leaf colours.
    • Self-fertility: Self-fertile
    • Blossom colour: White
    • Fruit colour: Gold

  • Comtesse de Paris crab apple trees
    Comtesse de Paris can be considered as an improved Golden Hornet. It features the same white blossom and persistent yellow fruitlets, but grows with a better form.
    £36.75 - £61.50buyBest seller
    • Self-fertility: Self-fertile
    • Blossom colour: White
    • Fruit colour: Yellow
    • Awards: RHS AGM (current)

  • Coralburst crab apple trees
    Malus Coralburst is a naturally compact crab-apple with a superb blossom display and small persistent yellow-orange fruitlets.
    • Self-fertility: Self-fertile
    • Blossom colour: Pink - dark
    • Fruit colour: Bronze

  • Crimson Cascade crab apple trees
    A new weeping crab-apple with dusky pink blossom and small dark red fruitlets.
    £44.00 - £72.50buy
    • Self-fertility: Self-fertile
    • Blossom colour: Crimson
    • Fruit colour: Red - dark

  • Donald Wyman crab apple trees
    Donald Wyman is a classic white-flowered crab-apple, with very small red fruits, which persist into mid-winter.
    £36.75 - £61.50buy
    • Self-fertility: Self-fertile
    • Blossom colour: White
    • Fruit colour: Red

  • Elk River features large fragrant pink single flowers followed by small bright green crab-apples.
    £44.00 - £72.50buy
    • Self-fertility: Self-fertile
    • Blossom colour: Pink - light
    • Fruit colour: Green

  • Evereste crab apple trees
    Evereste is one of the most well-known crab-apples, featuring white blossom and red-yellow fruits.
    £36.75 - £61.50buyBest seller
    • Self-fertility: Self-fertile
    • Blossom colour: White
    • Fruit colour: Orange / Red
    • Awards: RHS AGM (current)

  • Fimbriata crab apple trees
    Malus Fimbriata is notable for its double-flowered blossom, very unusual in a crab-apple.
    £44.00buy
    • Self-fertility: Partially self-fertile
    • Blossom colour: Pink - light

  • Golden Gem crab apple trees
    A traditional crab-apple featuring a mass of white blossom in spring, followed by yellow crab apples.
    £36.75 - £44.00buy
    • Self-fertility: Self-fertile
    • Blossom colour: White
    • Fruit colour: Yellow

  • Golden Hornet crab apple trees
    Malus Golden Hornet is a traditional white blossom crab apple, with persistent yellow fruits.
    £36.75 - £61.50buy
    • Self-fertility: Self-fertile
    • Blossom colour: White
    • Fruit colour: Yellow
    • Awards: RHS AGM (former)

  • Gorgeous crab apple trees
    Malus Gorgeous has pink/white blossom and spherical cherry-like red fruits which are good for jelly.
    £36.75 - £61.50buy
    • Self-fertility: Self-fertile
    • Blossom colour: Pink - light
    • Fruit colour: Red

  • Halloween crab apple trees
    Malus Halloween is named for its ribbed orange-yellow crab-apples, which resemble little pumpkins.
    £44.00 - £62.50buyBest seller
    • Self-fertility: Self-fertile
    • Blossom colour: White
    • Fruit colour: Yellow / Orange

  • Harry Baker crab apple trees
    Malus Harry Baker is a popular crab-apple with deep pink flowers and dark red fruits which are very good for crab-apple jelly.
    £36.75buy
    • Self-fertility: Self-fertile
    • Blossom colour: Crimson
    • Fruit colour: Red

  • Indian Magic crab apple trees
    An excellent all-round crab apple, with attractive bronze leaves, dusky pink blossom, and small persistent red fruits.
    £44.00 - £61.50buy
    • Self-fertility: Self-fertile
    • Blossom colour: Pink
    • Fruit colour: Red

  • Jelly King crab apple trees
    A compact crab apple, with unusually large persistent fruits - excellent for crab apple jelly.
    £36.75 - £61.50buyBest seller
    • Self-fertility: Self-fertile
    • Blossom colour: White
    • Fruit colour: Orange / Red
    • Awards: RHS AGM (current)

  • John Downie crab apple trees
    John Downie is a traditional crab apple for making crab apple jelly. White blossom and orange-red fruits.
    £36.95 - £61.50buy
    • Self-fertility: Self-fertile
    • Blossom colour: White
    • Fruit colour: Orange / Red
    • Awards: RHS AGM (former)

  • Laura crab apple trees
    Malus Laura is a very upright dwarf crab-apple, with bronze leaves, crimson blossom and maroon fruitlets.
    £36.75 - £62.50buyBest seller
    • Self-fertility: Self-fertile
    • Blossom colour: Crimson
    • Awards: RHS AGM (current)

  • Louisa crab apple trees
    Malus Louisa is a pretty weeping crab apple with light pink blossom and small yellow fruitlets.
    £44.00 - £72.50buy
    • Self-fertility: Self-fertile
    • Blossom colour: Pink - light
    • Fruit colour: Orange

  • Malus baccata crab apple trees
    The Siberian crab-apple, noted for its exceptional cold-hardiness, disease-resistance, attractive blossom and clusters of cherry-like fruitlets in autumn,
    £44.00 - £72.50buy
    • Self-fertility: Self-fertile
    • Blossom colour: White
    • Fruit colour: Orange / Red

  • Malus floribunda crab apple trees
    Malus floribunda is also known as the Japanese Crab. Pink / white blossom then red / yellow fruits.
    £44.00 - £72.50buy
    • Self-fertility: Self-fertile
    • Blossom colour: White
    • Fruit colour: Yellow / Red
    • Awards: RHS AGM (current)

  • Malus hupehensis crab apple trees
    A traditional garden crab-apple from China, with white blossom and small red-tinged fruitlets, a good choice as a specimen tree.
    £44.00 - £72.50buy
    • Self-fertility: Partially self-fertile
    • Blossom colour: White
    • Fruit colour: Green / Red
    • Awards: RHS AGM (current)

  • Malus sylvestris crab apple trees
    Malus sylvestris is the common wild crab apple, easy to grow and ideal for native planting schemes.
    £44.00buy
    • Self-fertility: Self-fertile

  • Malus transitoria crab apple trees
    Malus transitoria is known as the Cut-leaf crab-apple, and features a mass of small white flowers, and clusters of tiny yellow fruitlets.
    £36.75 - £63.50buy
    • Self-fertility: Self-fertile
    • Blossom colour: White
    • Fruit colour: Yellow
    • Awards: RHS AGM (current)

  • NUVAR® Marble crab apple trees
    A modern English crab-apple, with large fruits, ideal for early-season crab-apple jelly.
    £37.95 - £61.50buy
    • Self-fertility: Self-fertile
    • Blossom colour: White
    • Fruit colour: Orange / Red

  • Pink Glow crab apple trees
    Malus Dolgo, also known as Pink Glow, offers early-season white flowers and very attractive dark pink fruits. It is exceptionally cold-hardy.
    £36.75 - £61.50buy
    • Self-fertility: Self-fertile
    • Blossom colour: White

  • Prairie Fire crab apple trees
    Malus Prairie Fire is a medium-size upright crab-apple tree, notable for its dark pink flowers.
    £44.00 - £72.50buyBest seller
    • Blossom colour: Pink - dark
    • Fruit colour: Red

  • Professor Sprenger crab apple trees
    A well-proportioned crab-apple with profuse white blossom, and golden-orange fruitlets in autumn.
    £46.00buy
    • Self-fertility: Self-fertile
    • Blossom colour: White
    • Fruit colour: Orange

  • Profusion crab apple trees
    Malus Profusion (also known as Directeur Moerlands) is a classic crab apple variety, with dense clusters of deep pink blossom followed by small crimson berry-like fruitlets.
    £36.75 - £61.50buy
    • Self-fertility: Self-fertile
    • Blossom colour: Crimson
    • Fruit colour: Red - dark

  • Red Obelisk crab apple trees
    Malus Red Obelisk is a compact upright crab-apple with white flowers, purple / green leaves, and red fruits - a good choice for making crab-apple jelly.
    £37.95 - £61.50buy
    • Self-fertility: Self-fertile
    • Blossom colour: White
    • Blossom colour: Pink - light
    • Fruit colour: Red

  • Red Sentinel crab apple trees
    Malus Red Sentinel has classic white blossom and a profusion of tiny scarlet persistent fruits.
    £36.75 - £61.50buyBest seller
    • Self-fertility: Self-fertile
    • Blossom colour: White
    • Fruit colour: Red
    • Awards: RHS AGM (current)
    • Awards: RHS AM

  • Roberts Red crab apple trees
    Roberts Red or Roberts Crab is an unusual red-fleshed crab-apple, with dark pink blossom, and purple fruits. Useful for cooking and produces a claret red colour juice.
    £36.75 - £61.50buy
    • Self-fertility: Self-fertile
    • Blossom colour: Pink - dark
    • Fruit colour: Purple

  • Rosehip crab apple trees
    Malus Rosehip is notable for its large rosehip-shaped red fruits.
    £36.75 - £61.50buy
    • Self-fertility: Self-fertile
    • Blossom colour: White
    • Fruit colour: Orange / Red

  • Royalty crab apple trees
    Malus Royalty has bright purple-red blossom, dark green-bronze leaves, and dark red fruitlets.
    £44.00 - £72.50buy
    • Self-fertility: Self-fertile
    • Blossom colour: Red - dark
    • Fruit colour: Red - dark

  • Rudolph crab apple trees
    Malus Rudoph features very large single deep pink flowers, and small orange fruits.
    £44.00 - £72.50buy
    • Blossom colour: Pink
    • Fruit colour: Orange
    • Fruit colour: Orange / Red
    • Fruit colour: Yellow / Orange

  • Scarlett crab apple trees
    Malus toringo Scarlett is an ornamental crab apple with bronze leaves, dusky pink blossom, and dark red fruitlets.
    £34.95 - £61.50buy
    • Self-fertility: Self-fertile
    • Blossom colour: Pink
    • Fruit colour: Purple
    • Awards: RHS AGM (current)

  • Sun Rival crab apple trees
    Malus Sun Rival is a popular weeping crab-apple, with pale pink blossom and small red berry-like fruitlets.
    £36.75 - £72.50buy
    • Self-fertility: Self-fertile
    • Blossom colour: Pink - light
    • Fruit colour: Red
    • Awards: RHS AGM (current)

  • Wedding Bouquet crab apple trees
    Malus Wedding Bouquet features ivory-white blossom and tiny red berry-like fruitlets.
    £36.75 - £72.50buy
    • Self-fertility: Self-fertile
    • Blossom colour: White
    • Fruit colour: Red - dark
    • Awards: RHS AGM (current)

  • White Star crab apple trees
    A modern English crab-apple with white star-like flowers followed by attractive russeted fruitlets.
    • Self-fertility: Self-fertile
    • Blossom colour: White
    • Fruit colour: Russet
    • Fruit colour: Yellow / Orange

How to choose Crab apple trees

We have a huge range of crab-apple trees, with blossom colours from white to dark crimson, and fruitlet colours from red to orange to yellow, and lots of different sizes and forms.

It is well-known that many crab-apples (especially the ones with white blossom and green leaves) are excellent pollinators for mainstream apple varieties. This is because they produce huge quantities of pollen, usually over a long period, and with good compatiblity. Evereste, Golden Gem, Golden Hornet, John Downie and Red Sentinel are popular for this purpose.

While crab-apples are primarily used for their ornamental value, many are also useful for crab-apple jelly, and providing natural pectin for cooking with.  Have a look at Laura, Jelly King, Pink Glow, and Harry Baker.