• holzapfel
  • MALUS SYLVESTRIS (GBIF) , World Flora Online
  • Mythologie: 'Crab apples have long been associated with love and marriage. It was said that if you throw the pips into the fire while saying the name of your love, the love is true if the pips explode. Apple wood was burned by the Celts during fertility rites and festivals, and Shakespeare made reference to crab apples in A Midsummer Night's Dream and Love's Labour Lost.'
  • Botanische Merkmale: Blütenachse krugförmig, die (freien!) Karpelle umwachsend, zur Fruchtzeit fleischig: Apfelfrucht bzw. Sammelbalgfrucht; Sprossdornen; wild, heimisch: Laubwälder, besonders Hartholzau; eine der Stammsippen von M. domestica.
  • Practical Plants: Malus sylvestris
  • Plants For A Future: An orange to yellow dye for wool fibers is obtained from the bark and leaves.
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