Common Name:  Profusion Flowering Crabapple        

Scientific Name: Malus x moerlandsii ‘Profusion’

Location: Spalding Circle

Size: 2.5 inches diameter at breast height

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Native to: Cloned cultivar

This tree typically grows to: 15 to 30 feet tall, and 20 to 35 feet wide

This tree prefers these conditions:  Full sun, medium moisture

Special about this tree:  

• Ornamental cultivar is generally disease resistant and tends to live up to its name in the spring, with profuse flowers
• Violet-red 1.5-inch flowers in spring
• Leaves emerge purple in spring, turn coppery-green in summer and may have decent red fall color.
• Small bright-red crabapples persist in fall and winter, to birds’ delight.
• Generally disease resistant.

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