Since they look just like apples, you may wonder whether they’re edible. Crab apples are small, decorative wild apples. Like domesticated eating apples, they’re members of the Malus genus.

Nay, they spring up wild and bear well there in the midst of ... it is so noble a fruit. I never saw the Crab-Apple till May, 1861. I had heard of it through Michaux, but more modern botanists ...

The Romans brought the domestic apple to Britain, but the wild crab apple, Malus sylvestris, is native to these shores. As domestic apple cultivation became more sophisticated in the 18th and ...

including domestic varieties as well as crab apples and wild apples from 24 different species. They then compared the genomes to unravel the story of how all those species combined to create today ...

The genetic analysis showed evidence of frequent hybridization of domestic apples with wild species. Many of those crossings were probably done deliberately by farmers. The wild crab apple in ...

Yet with incredible dedication, steady hands and laser focus, a team from Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh has spent countless hours first tracking down elusive native wild crab apple trees – ones ...

And genetic studies of crab apple trees - Britain’s last wild variety - show that in some areas more than half are now hybrids, after cross-pollinating with domesticated varieties. Dr Markus ...