Purple Prince Crabapple
Zone: 4
Height: 20’
Spread: 20’
Shape: rounded
Foliage: purple, becoming bronze green
Flower: rose red
Fruit: maroon 3/8”-1/2”
Disease resistance: scab: excel
Cedar-apple rust: excel
Mildew: good
Fireblight: excel
An outstanding rosy bloom crab. The purple bronze foliage and bright flowers rival Liset, but purple prince does not suffer from stem spitting and is faster growing. This is probably the best purple foliaged crab for growers.

Royal Fountain Crabapple
Zone: 4
Height: 15’
Spread: 15’
Shape: weeping
Foliage: purple, becoming bronze green
Flower: rose red
Fruit: deep red 3/8”-1/2”
Disease resistance: scab: fair
Cedar-apple rust: excel
Mildew: excel
Fireblight: good
Royal fountain has a very graceful weeping habit and branches well at a young age. Perhaps the best replacement for echtermeyer

Adirondack Crabapple
Zone: 4
Height: 18’
Spread: 10’
Shape: densely upright, an inverted cone
Foliage: medium green
Flower: white
Fruit: bright red, 1/2”
Disease resistance: scab: excel
Cedar-apple rust: excel
Mildew: excel
Fireblight: excel
Adirondack is an important cultivar because of its form and outstanding flower display. It is a compact dense tree strongly upright form. It produces one of the heaviest flower displays of the crab. A Don Egolf, U.S. National Arboretum introduction.

Louisa Crabapple
Zone: 4
Height: 15’
Spread: 15’
Shape: weeping
Foliage: dark green, glossy
Flower: true pink
Fruit: yellow 3/8”
Disease resistance: scab: excel
Cedar-apple rust: good
Mildew: good
Fireblight: good
A pink flowered weeping crab with excellent form and dark green glossy foliage

Centurion Crabapple
Zone: 4
Height: 20’
Spread: 15’
Shape: narrow, upright
Foliage: light green, glossy
Flower: white
Fruit: red, 3/8” persistent
Disease resistance: scab: good
Cedar-apple rust: excel
Mildew: excel
Fireblight: good
Red buds open to rosy red flowers. Strongly upright when young, but becomes upright spreading as it matures

Jewelberry Crabapple
Zone: 4
Height: 8’
Spread: 12’
Shape: dwarf rounded, dense
Foliage: green
Flower: white, pink edged,
Fruit: bright red 1/2”
Disease resistance: scab: excel
Cedar-apple rust: excel
Mildew: excel
Fireblight: excel
Deep pink buds to open white flowers with pink edges, as its name implies, persistent red fruit sparkle on a winter’s day

Indian Magic Crabapple
Zone: 4
Height: 15’
Spread: 15’
Shape: upright spreading
Foliage: dark green
Flower: deep pink
Fruit: orange red, 1/2” persistent
Disease resistance: scab: fair
Cedar-apple rust: good
Mildew: excel
Fireblight: excel
Bright red elongated fruit is of unusual shape and makes this tree beautiful

Floribunda
Zone: 4
Height: 18’
Spread: 25’
Shape: spreading, irregular
Foliage: green
Flower: pink fading to white
Fruit: yellow-red, 3/8”
Disease resistance: scab: good
Cedar-apple rust: excel
Mildew: good
Fireblight: fair
An old variety, proven over the years to be one of the best. Very graceful habit with irregular spreading branches produces a fine winter silhouette

Candymint Crabapple
Zone: 4
Height: 10’
Spread: 15’
Shape: low spreading
Foliage: purple tinted becoming bronze green
Flower: rose pink
Fruit: red, 3/8”
Disease resistance: scab: good
Cedar-apple rust: excel
Mildew: excel
Fireblight: excel
Irregularly spreading branches of this diminutive tree are smothered in spring with excellent, bright pink flowers. Dwarf character and abundant crop of bright red, persistent fruits hint at its origin as a Sargent seeding.

Sargeant Crabapple
Zone: 5’
Height: 8’
Spread: 12’
Shape: low, spreading
Foliage: dark green
Flower: white
Fruit: red, 1/4”, persistent
Disease resistance: scab: excel
Cedar-apple rust: excel
Mildew: excel
Fireblight: excel
A natural dwarf with horizontal spreading branches. Outstanding when planted in group.

Weeping Candied Apple
Zone: 4’
Height: 25’
Spread: 15’
Shape: weeping
Foliage: dark green with red tint in spring
Flower: pink
Fruit: bright red, 1/2” persistent
Disease resistance: scab: fair
Cedar-apple rust: excel
Mildew: excel
Fireblight: excel
Valued for its weeping form and red tinted foliage. One of several weeping crabapple cultivars that lends itself well to training as a contorted form.

Doubloons Crabapple
Zone: 4’
Height: 18’
Spread: 16’
Shape: dense, upright spreading
Foliage: green
Flower: double white
Fruit: yellow, 3/8” persistent
Disease resistance: scab: good
Cedar-apple rust: excel
Mildew: excel
Fireblight: good
The first double flowering white crab with disease resistance. Outstanding yellow fruit.

Wintergold Crabapple
Zone: 4’
Height: 25’
Spread: 20’
Shape: broadly pyramidal to oval
Foliage: green
Flower: white
Fruit: yellow, 1/2” persistent
Disease resistance: scab: fair
Cedar-apple rust: excel
Mildew: good
Fireblight: fair
Persistent golden yellow fruits borne in abundance make this white-flowered selection stand out in the winter landscape

Luwick Crabapple
Zone: 4’
Height: 7’
Spread: 14’
Shape: graceful, refined weeper
Foliage: medium green
Flower: deep pink buds, light pink to white flowers
Fruit: bright red 3/8”
Disease resistance: scab: excel
Cedar-apple rust: excel
Mildew: excel
Fireblight: unknown
Father John Fiala hybridized this weeper and gave it the family nickname of his dutch mother, Luwick. We think this is his best weeper, as it has excellent form, flower, foliage, and fruit

Brandywine Crabapple
Zone: 4
Height: 20’
Spread: 20’
Shape: upright spreading
Foliage: dark green with reddish tint
Fall color: reddisk purple
Flower: fragrant, rose to deep pink, double
Fruit: green, 1/4”
Disease resistance: scab: Fair
Cedar-apple rust: poor
Mildew: excel
Fireblight: excel
Brandywine crab resembles Klehm’s Improved Bechtel but has better symmetry and more vigor.

Flame Crabapple
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Flower: pink buds, opening to whit flower
Fruit: bright red, 0.8”
Disease resistance: scab: excel
Cedar-apple rust:
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Fireblight: fair

Profusion Crabapple
Zone: 4
Height: 20’
Spread: 20’
Shape: upright, spreading
Foliage: purple, fading to bronze
Flower: pink
Fruit: maroon, 1/2” persistent
Disease resistance: scab: fair
Cedar-apple rust: excel
Mildew: good
Fireblight: good
A popular variety with deep pinkish red flowers and maroon fruit.

Harvest Gold Crabapple
Zone: 4
Height: 22’
Spread: 18’
Shape: upright oval
Foliage: dark green
Flower: white
Fruit: yellow, 1/2” persistent
Disease resistance: scab: fair
Cedar-apple rust: good
Mildew: good
Fireblight: fair
One of the best yellow fruited crabs, it features neat, crisp, dark green foliage and an upright branch habit.

Sugar Tyme Crabapple
Zone: 4
Height: 18’
Spread: 15’
Shape: upright, spreading, oval
Foliage: green
Flower: white
Fruit: red, 1/2” persistent
Disease resistance: scab: good
Cedar-apple rust: excel
Mildew: excel
Fireblight: good
Fragrant white flowers smother sugar tyme in spring. Persistent red fruits provide a fine fall and winter display.