Purple Prince Crabapple

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Purple Prince Crabapple

Malus 20 × 20' No 85-20-R2 (Bluebeard × Liset) John Fiala intro, Falconskeape, Medina, OH, 1970.

Heavy annual blooms of single purple-pink flowers. Purple-bronze foliage. ½" blue-purple persistent fruit for the birds. Small round spreading slightly disheveled tree with nice open branch structure.

Named when Prince Rogers Nelson was only twelve years old. Did Fiala have a premonition? Commemorate the pop legend right in your own backyard. No scab or other diseases. Hardy north of Minneapolis. Z3. (Semi-dwarf: 3-6' bare-root trees)

7638 Purple Prince

C: 1 on EMLA 7 semi-dwarfing stock
$38.50