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Royalty Crabapple Tree
Royalty Crabapple Tree
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Royalty Crabapple was developed by Canadian breeder W. L. Kerr and released in the early 1960s by the Sutherland Forest Nursery Station in Saskatoon. It belongs to the Rosybloom group descended from the red fleshed Central Asian apple Malus niedzwetzkyana.
Royalty is primarily ornamental. Its foliage opens plum purple, turns purple green in summer, and finishes red orange to scarlet in fall. Crimson to fuchsia flowers appear in mid spring, followed by maroon fruit about 5/8 inch across in fall.
Cold Hardiness Zone: 4
Growing details
- Suckering context
- Listed as a maintenance concern; cultivar versus rootstock origin not identified
- Water-use context
- Low landscape water-use rating once established; not a quantified soil-moisture range
- Disease context
- Susceptible to fire blight in the cited source
- Ornamental habit
- Purple foliage and flowers with sparse dark red-purple fruit
Cold hardinessZone 4 · Canadian maps for this plant
Zone 4 and warmer
The map shows minimum winter hardiness. Soil, moisture and summer warmth also affect how a plant grows.
About these maps
Climate: Natural Resources Canada, 1991–2020. Provincial distribution: VASCAN via retained botanical research. Province outlines: Natural Earth, public domain.
Open Government Licence – CanadaPollination
Apples need pollen from a different apple or crabapple to set fruit. A second variety in your yard will do it, and so will a neighbour's apple or fruiting crabapple. Double flowered ornamental crabapples make no pollen and do not count.