Crab Apple Tree - Selective Colour
by Yvonne Johnstone
Title
Crab Apple Tree - Selective Colour
Artist
Yvonne Johnstone
Medium
Photograph - Photography
Description
A symbol of fertility and a forager's delight. Crab apple trees are associated with love and marriage and its small, hard fruits make an exquisite, jewel-coloured jelly.
One of the ancestors of the cultivated apple (of which there are more than 6,000 varieties), it can live to up to 100 years.
Mature trees grow to around 10m in height. They have an irregular, rounded shape and a wide, spreading canopy. With greyish brown, flecked bark, trees can become quite gnarled and twisted, especially when exposed, and the twigs often develop spines. This 'crabbed' appearance may have influenced its common name, 'crab apple'.
Birds and mammals eat the apples and disperse the seeds.
They ripen in late September to October and are usually green with a pink blush or a golden yellow colour.
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October 1st, 2020
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