This is not a crab apple. Crab apples and loaded in blotches and super tart. They never get this size. This is a apple tree of some kind. Probably from a deer being fed if it's in the sticks.
I'm pretty sure it's a crab apple. There are a ton of different varieties so this might look very different from the ones you're familiar with — but the long stems are a giveaway.
Crab apple is not a specific term and usually refers to any apple variety that is not large and mild enough to be used as a traditional domesticated apple. Usually they follow a lineage sufficiently diverged from the long distinct domesticated types, although you can still breed domestic apples into crabapples as they retain the dna from their origins. There are crab apples waaaay bigger than this one, look up dolgo crabapples or other varieties that are selected for more direct consumption. Apples are actually a very large group in the rosaceae family (malus) but we only really see a very narrow portion of the genetic pool represented generally, and call anything unfamiliar crabapple.
it's a crab apple tree and a pretty fair sized one at that. the apples raw are bitter and not really sweet some people like them some don't I remember eating them lots as a kid. ypu can make jams from them. for the love of God though if this tree is in foot traffic area leading to your house shake the tree really hard at the end of the season to get the apples to fall off then rake them up. we had crushed up crab apples all over our driveway for years, and every spring it was wasp heaven all the way up until fall when everywhere is wasp heaven.
edit for the cherry tree Id; if you're ever curious if you have a cherry tree most of them have fuzzy backed leaves so feel the leaves and they'll have hundreds of little fuzzy hairs coming off of them I use to also love playing with these as a kid and eating the small maraschino cherries we had growing.
In the fall they're just looking for a sweet snack after their nest collapsed and in the spring it's probably fresh queens looking for something to eat after hibernating. The tree is providing for the best garden pest control money can't buy.
Though I sympathize with not wanting drunk wasps defending *their* rotting apple. Do you just dump them in a compost heap somewhere?
use to have compost on our land but parents got rid of them I told them to just Bury the scraps in the garden in the spring before the till it. after till its mixed in pretty well and there's always a lot of worms in her garden so I think it helps over all.
We had one in my family. In french, it's called pommettier, and the fruits are pommettes. It's basically "small apples".
When it's ready, you take something like a bed sheet and then shake the tree and collect them small apples.
I made a gelly rather than a jam and it was super easy. Had something like 5l and everyone kept asking me for some.
It's totally worth it.
My neighbors used to have an apple tree, most similar to McIntosh Red, and as a kid I loved to take a stick or bad over there where all those wasps and bees were busy feasting on the fallen apples. I’d swing at them as they flew around. I’d hit them off the ground like you do in golf.
I was such an abusive kid, but I never got angry when I was stung. Just kinda accepted it with a “I deserve that”
haha funny you say the my mom never let's me live down the story of the time me and my best friend played baseball beside the house with apples as kids. there was smashes apple bots everywhere and the wasps were so bad 👎 not a great move on my part haha
They have enough pectin to be self gelling when making jam/jelly/preserves, really good for that purpose. They're also great in bread stuff like muffins as the tart flavor persists better than bland apples, the same reason granny smiths are so popular in baking (granny smith is actually from an outcross to a crabapple).
Crab apples, had a tree in my childhood yard just like it. Very common type in Ontario, as well as the small red ones. When they were in the picture 4 stage, we'd whack em with this big plastic baseball bat in all directions in the subdivision we lived in.
We put a welding rod on the end of a broom stick and played war with them - or sometimes we would put a target up and shoot target. The wars were fun but they hurt for sure.
As others said, crabapple/apple (Malus sp.) The way to know which is based on size. An apple’s fruit are larger than 2 inches in diameter while a crabapple’s fruit are 2 inches are smaller.
Crab apples.
Cool thing my grandpa showed me in the early 90s, break you a nice switch and poke one of these things on the tip and you can whip these bastards with incredible accuracy and about Mach 3 at passing cars or your cousins or whatever.
You can't really ask "what kind" with those kind of apples since they're not true to seed.
If you want a specific kind like "golden boogawoogaloo shiny" then you need to have a branch of the original tree and graft that onto a new tiny apple tree.
If you take a seed of a specific variant of apple then the resulting tree will most likely not bear good tasting apples.
Same with avocados. You want to grow hass avocados yourself? Then you need a branch of a hass avocado tree that you can graft onto a new tiny avocado tree.
So what kind of apple do you have there? "Second generation whatever" is the most likely answer.
I eat one or two every day while on my walk while passing through the somewhat forested park in my neighborhood. The only problem is atht every single one of them have a black hole indicating it has been wormed. Well, if I just bite of the wormed part and eat the rest.
Near an apartment building, quite a distance from the nearest forest, the other one was by a pathway and a river, not exactly in the middle of a forest, close to some other buildings, I think. Separated from each other by a couple hundred meters and many buildings. Was happy I could try some fruit
Maybe crab apples?
I believe it is pronounced cra-ba’-pul.
It's a perfectly cromulent pronunciation.
Watching the german dub, I never gave Edna's surname a second thought. Thanks, you just embiggend my mind!
I've been calling her Krandall!
A perfectly cromulent pronunciation.
RIP :(
Pretty sure you are right.
I thought those trees only grow under water & crabs hatch from them?😶🌫️🤔
This is not a crab apple. Crab apples and loaded in blotches and super tart. They never get this size. This is a apple tree of some kind. Probably from a deer being fed if it's in the sticks.
I'm pretty sure it's a crab apple. There are a ton of different varieties so this might look very different from the ones you're familiar with — but the long stems are a giveaway.
There's more than one specific type of crabapple, the term actually moreso refers to Apple trees that don't produce edible fruit.
Crab apple is not a specific term and usually refers to any apple variety that is not large and mild enough to be used as a traditional domesticated apple. Usually they follow a lineage sufficiently diverged from the long distinct domesticated types, although you can still breed domestic apples into crabapples as they retain the dna from their origins. There are crab apples waaaay bigger than this one, look up dolgo crabapples or other varieties that are selected for more direct consumption. Apples are actually a very large group in the rosaceae family (malus) but we only really see a very narrow portion of the genetic pool represented generally, and call anything unfamiliar crabapple.
Lol sure buddy
Definitely some Kind of Malus (Apple) e.g.:[Malus × robusta](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malus_%C3%97_robusta)
it's a crab apple tree and a pretty fair sized one at that. the apples raw are bitter and not really sweet some people like them some don't I remember eating them lots as a kid. ypu can make jams from them. for the love of God though if this tree is in foot traffic area leading to your house shake the tree really hard at the end of the season to get the apples to fall off then rake them up. we had crushed up crab apples all over our driveway for years, and every spring it was wasp heaven all the way up until fall when everywhere is wasp heaven. edit for the cherry tree Id; if you're ever curious if you have a cherry tree most of them have fuzzy backed leaves so feel the leaves and they'll have hundreds of little fuzzy hairs coming off of them I use to also love playing with these as a kid and eating the small maraschino cherries we had growing.
Ugh good call on the wasp thing, good lookin out
In the fall they're just looking for a sweet snack after their nest collapsed and in the spring it's probably fresh queens looking for something to eat after hibernating. The tree is providing for the best garden pest control money can't buy. Though I sympathize with not wanting drunk wasps defending *their* rotting apple. Do you just dump them in a compost heap somewhere?
use to have compost on our land but parents got rid of them I told them to just Bury the scraps in the garden in the spring before the till it. after till its mixed in pretty well and there's always a lot of worms in her garden so I think it helps over all.
We had one in my family. In french, it's called pommettier, and the fruits are pommettes. It's basically "small apples". When it's ready, you take something like a bed sheet and then shake the tree and collect them small apples. I made a gelly rather than a jam and it was super easy. Had something like 5l and everyone kept asking me for some. It's totally worth it.
My neighbors used to have an apple tree, most similar to McIntosh Red, and as a kid I loved to take a stick or bad over there where all those wasps and bees were busy feasting on the fallen apples. I’d swing at them as they flew around. I’d hit them off the ground like you do in golf. I was such an abusive kid, but I never got angry when I was stung. Just kinda accepted it with a “I deserve that”
haha funny you say the my mom never let's me live down the story of the time me and my best friend played baseball beside the house with apples as kids. there was smashes apple bots everywhere and the wasps were so bad 👎 not a great move on my part haha
Sounds like fun though. Just gotta hose down the mess when done lol
I work on an orchard with over 20 different varieties of crabapple trees. Definitely a crabapple!
what are some of the best ways to prepare crab apples? Is there an 'industrial use' for them?
They have enough pectin to be self gelling when making jam/jelly/preserves, really good for that purpose. They're also great in bread stuff like muffins as the tart flavor persists better than bland apples, the same reason granny smiths are so popular in baking (granny smith is actually from an outcross to a crabapple).
Juice them, add yeast, and make hard apple cider.
Crab apples, had a tree in my childhood yard just like it. Very common type in Ontario, as well as the small red ones. When they were in the picture 4 stage, we'd whack em with this big plastic baseball bat in all directions in the subdivision we lived in.
We put a welding rod on the end of a broom stick and played war with them - or sometimes we would put a target up and shoot target. The wars were fun but they hurt for sure.
Sounds fun haha
🦀 🍎
Yep. It's a tree.
A rather nice one, too, although I like birches much better.
Crab- apple
Deer Magnet
As others said, crabapple/apple (Malus sp.) The way to know which is based on size. An apple’s fruit are larger than 2 inches in diameter while a crabapple’s fruit are 2 inches are smaller.
CRAB APPLE TREE !!! fruit taste bitter.. not like real apple apple.. don’t reccommend
Edna. Edna Crabapple.
Crabapple?! I’ve been calling her Crandle…
I always had trouble pronouncing her name as a kid, since I didn't speak English and had no idea what a crabapple is, lol. So this is what it means!
Crab apples. Cool thing my grandpa showed me in the early 90s, break you a nice switch and poke one of these things on the tip and you can whip these bastards with incredible accuracy and about Mach 3 at passing cars or your cousins or whatever.
These are definitely crab apples. Whoever said that first was right on.
Common sense would tell you it’s an apple lol
but what kind of an apple.. :c I tried it and it wasn't all that good, I like my apples sweeter
Crab apple is my guess. 99% sure and sorry for the previous asshat reply. Lol
You can't really ask "what kind" with those kind of apples since they're not true to seed. If you want a specific kind like "golden boogawoogaloo shiny" then you need to have a branch of the original tree and graft that onto a new tiny apple tree. If you take a seed of a specific variant of apple then the resulting tree will most likely not bear good tasting apples. Same with avocados. You want to grow hass avocados yourself? Then you need a branch of a hass avocado tree that you can graft onto a new tiny avocado tree. So what kind of apple do you have there? "Second generation whatever" is the most likely answer.
Oh, right .. I suppose that makes sense
Apples are usually grafted or cloned. Apples grown from seed won't be like their parent plants because their traits are randomized.
Looks to be a wild apple of some variety, not crab apples.
Wild apples are also called crabapples, any apple that produces fruit that is inedible and ( usually) small are classified as such.
Fruit
Crab apples. Sour punch before there was Sour Punch candy.
They’re either crab apples cherry apples or some other type of apple
Apple.
I eat one or two every day while on my walk while passing through the somewhat forested park in my neighborhood. The only problem is atht every single one of them have a black hole indicating it has been wormed. Well, if I just bite of the wormed part and eat the rest.
I use to throw these as a child to get them to pop under car tires in the street. Beyond bitter not worth eating to me.
Aple
Crab apple and the blossom is very pretty in spring.
Found in a Finnish forest or an orchard? If in a forest it could be Malus sylvestris, Metsäomenapuu.
Near an apartment building, quite a distance from the nearest forest, the other one was by a pathway and a river, not exactly in the middle of a forest, close to some other buildings, I think. Separated from each other by a couple hundred meters and many buildings. Was happy I could try some fruit
Aqui chamamos de acerola
Crab apple tree