Malus domestica, Borkh.
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Malus domestica |
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6. M. domestica Borkh. View in CoL , Handb. Forstbot. 2: 1272 (1803).
Unarmed small to medium-sized tree; twigs tomentose. Leaves 4 -1 3 x3 -7 cm, ovate-elliptical, serrate, with rounded, rarely cordate base, slightly tomentose above and densely tomentose beneath. Fruit more than 5 cm, varying in colour, sweet or acid, much longer than pedicel. Cultivatedfor itsfruit almost throughout Europe. Often escaping and occasionally naturalized.
The apple is of hybrid origin, and has probably been derived from 3, 4, 5 and some Asiatic species. More than a thousand cultivars are grown.
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Malus domestica
| Tutin, T. G., Heywood, V. H., Burges, N. A., Moore, D. M., Valentine, D. H., Walters, S. M. & Webb, D. A. 1981 |
M. domestica
| Borkh. 1803: 1272 |