Red Jewel Flowering Crab

Categories: Ornamental Trees, Plants, Trees

Red Jewel Flowering Crab (Malus ‘Red Jewel’):A popular ornamental featuring white flowers in spring and persistent bright red fruit in fall, very compact, upright habit of growth; begs to be given a prominent placement in the front yard or garden border, needs well-drained soil and full sun

This is a persistent fruiting crabapple, which means that the small fruit stays on the branches throughout the winter and does not drop to the ground.

Persistent fruiting flowering crabs are a great option if you are looking for a low mess, ornamental tree with excellent spring color.

Tag: spring bloom

Characteristics

Average Landscape Height:

15 feet

Average Landscape Width:

10 feet

Growth Rate:

medium

Genus:

Malus

Cultivar:

Red Jewel

Flower Color:

white

Flower Period:

in mid spring

Summer Foliage Color:

dark green

Fall Color:

yellow

Minimum Light:

full sun

Maximum Light:

full sun

Minimum Moisture:

average

Maximum Moisture:

moist

Plant Form:

pyramidal

Canopy:

low

Pruning:

late winter pruning

Pollution Tolerance:

high

Other Species Names:

Roseybloom, Crabapple

Branching:

decurrent

Flower Bud Color:

shell pink

Flower Fragrance:

high

Ornamental Features

Red Jewel Flowering Crab is blanketed in stunning clusters of fragrant white flowers along the branches in mid spring, which emerge from distinctive shell pink flower buds before the leaves. The fruits are showy cherry red pomes carried in abundance from early fall to late winter. It has dark green deciduous foliage. The pointy leaves turn yellow in fall.

Landscape Attributes

Red Jewel Flowering Crab is a deciduous tree with a distinctive and refined pyramidal form. Its average texture blends into the landscape, but can be balanced by one or two finer or coarser trees or shrubs for an effective composition.

Planting & Growing

Red Jewel Flowering Crab will grow to be about 15 feet tall at maturity, with a spread of 10 feet. It has a low canopy with a typical clearance of 3 feet from the ground, and is suitable for planting under power lines. It grows at a medium rate, and under ideal conditions can be expected to live for 50 years or more.

This tree should only be grown in full sunlight. It prefers to grow in average to moist conditions, and shouldn't be allowed to dry out. It is not particular as to soil type or pH. It is highly tolerant of urban pollution and will even thrive in inner city environments. This particular variety is an interspecific hybrid.

Red Jewel Flowering Crab

Characteristics

Ornamental Features

Landscape Attributes

Planting & Growing

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Ornamental Features

Landscape Attributes

Planting & Growing

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