Malus sylvestris

Going to be another outstanding year for these! #fragrant

#fragrant

The crabapples over the parking lot at work are suddenly deep red and #fragrant -- is fall here already?

Nooooooooo🫣

Another profoundly #underrated plant with beautiful, #fragrant flowers and fruit, useful as food for humans and any number of other species.

Lovely Eileen, I must collect some this year as I’ve run out of crab apple jelly. 😀😋

Another spectacular year for these! #yum

Can you eat them? Are they sour?

They're pretty sour but they're apples, all right, and with enough brown sugar they are delish @sushiwaitress

@emch ooooooooo that sounds wonderful!

#springhassprung

#springhassprung

#quickreference To know whether your apple tree is a standard type or a crabapple, measure the fruits. This size or smaller -- 2" in American, LOL -- and you have yourself a crab apple. Any larger and it is the regular kind.

This is a find from the grocery store: a maple-brown-sugar-and-crabapple pie. Soooooo good. I confess I am deeply suspicious of the apples; the slices are about twice the size of the biggest crabapple I have ever seen. But they are extremely tart. Must. Find. Recipe. #yum

Is it from the bakery case at your store? They might give you the recipe! 🍎🍏🍎

That's a bold strategy that I will try @KariSamuel !

I have done the same for a salad recipe! 😊 I could figure out the ingredients, but the dressing had me perplexed! Smoked paprika!

Looks delicious

@charlotte @KariSamuel I used the discovery of this pie as my positive for team meeting today and a co-worker said, "That sounds like something you'd serve with possum." Philistine!

Ha! I would eat it off a rock! Looks delicious!

I don't think it will come to that @KariSamuel LOL

Leaves are falling, revealing the apples #midwesternnative #101uses

Going to be another great year for these! #fragrant #midwesternnative #101uses

It's heavy with fruit, lovely

More of those #fragrant shooter marbles #midwesternnative

Now these really are crabapples...This tree at work makes apples the size of shooter marbles, super #fragrant #midwesternnative

I used to make jelly out of them

I love the jelly, these trees are a bit wonderful

Like fragrant shooter marbles. #notmyplant but I bring a bagful home of this #apple from work every year, put them in the slow cooker with brown sugar or maple syrup and YUMMERS

I don’t think I have ever see such large crabapples, maybe half this size!! It must love where it’s planted!!

@alisons50 -- I suspect they are just a really nice cultivar with honking big fruits. They are so neglected it isn't even funny.