JAPANESE CRAB APPLE * MALUS FLORIBANDA

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• The apples are small trees in the North Temperate Zone.
  
• Botanists prefer to unite the apple and pear in one genus Pyrus. The evident botanical distinctions between the two groups are slight, apparently not sufficient for easy or clear determination .
   
• The different degrees of union of the styles has been made a basis for distinguishing the named varieties of apples among themselves and does not appear to be important enough to be made the basis of generic separation.