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Prairie Crabapple Seeds
Prairie Crabapple Seeds
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Prairie Crabapple (Malus ioensis) is native to the central and eastern United States. It produces small apples that feed wildlife and white to pink flowers. Its seeds are larger than Siberian crabapple seed.
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Starting this seed
- Cold3 monthsCold stratification
- SowAfter the cold stage
- Seed source
- Iowa
- Hardiness
- Zone 4Under trial in Zone 3
- Mature size
- 15 ft tall
How to stratify seed
In the fridge. Put the seed in a bag with a damp medium such as peat moss, vermiculite, sand or coco coir. The medium is only there to hold moisture. Keep the bag in the fridge, above freezing, for the cold period shown, then sow.
Or outside. Sow the seed outdoors in the fall and let winter do the cold period.
The plant these seeds grow into
Growing details
- Native range
- Central United States and upper Midwest
- Fruit
- Small crabapples for wildlifeNot a large eating apple
- Foliage
- Toothed leaves, sometimes three lobedRed in fall
- Disease
- Very prone to cedar apple rustFire blight and canker can occur. Some resistance to apple scab
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