{"id":120,"date":"2013-08-27T14:06:54","date_gmt":"2013-08-27T21:06:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/trees\/?page_id=120"},"modified":"2025-03-20T08:34:52","modified_gmt":"2025-03-20T15:34:52","slug":"crabapples-apples","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/trees\/crabapples-apples\/","title":{"rendered":"Crabapples \/ Apples"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A deciduous fruit tree, the Crabapple produces a small, tart apple that makes excellent jellies and is also used for pickling. There are many varieties of this species distinguished by the variety of their delicate flowers. They are grown as fruit trees and as ornamentals.<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<p><ul class=\"list-pages-shortcode child-pages\"><li class=\"page_item page-item-122\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/trees\/crabapples-apples\/japanese-flowering-crabapple\/\">Japanese Flowering Crabapple<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"page_item page-item-126\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/trees\/crabapples-apples\/purple-leaf-crabapple\/\">Purple Leaf Crabapple<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul><br \/>\n<ul class=\"childPages\"><li><h2><span class=\"commonname\">Japanese Flowering Crabapple<\/h2><span class=\"scientificNameValue\">Scientific name: Malus floribunda<\/span>\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"childContent\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/trees\/files\/2013\/08\/MAFL2_lg.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-385 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/trees\/files\/2013\/08\/MAFL2_lg-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Japanese Flowering Crabapple\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/trees\/files\/2013\/08\/MAFL2_lg-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/trees\/files\/2013\/08\/MAFL2_lg.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/trees\/files\/2013\/08\/MAFL1_lg.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-383 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/trees\/files\/2013\/08\/MAFL1_lg-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Japanese Flowering Crabapple\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/trees\/files\/2013\/08\/MAFL1_lg-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/trees\/files\/2013\/08\/MAFL1_lg.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>\r\n\r\nA deciduous tree native to Japan, it has abundant red buds that turn into white blossoms in the spring. These trees make quite a show in the spring.<br \/>\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/trees\/crabapples-apples\/japanese-flowering-crabapple\/\">View tree page and map.<\/a><\/p><\/li><li><h2><span class=\"commonname\">Purple Leaf Crabapple<\/h2><span class=\"scientificNameValue\">Scientific name: Malus x purpurea<\/span>\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"childContent\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/trees\/files\/2013\/08\/MAPU2_lg1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-397 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/trees\/files\/2013\/08\/MAPU2_lg1-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"Purple Leaf Crabapple\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/trees\/files\/2013\/08\/MAPU2_lg1-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/trees\/files\/2013\/08\/MAPU2_lg1.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/trees\/files\/2013\/08\/MAPU1_lg.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-396 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/trees\/files\/2013\/08\/MAPU1_lg-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"Purple Leaf Crabapple\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/trees\/files\/2013\/08\/MAPU1_lg-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/trees\/files\/2013\/08\/MAPU1_lg.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a>A\u00a0\u00a0deciduous tree, it grows fast to 20 by 20 feet. One of the most common crabapples in Portland, the foliage and twigs are purplish. The flowers, single or semidouble, are purplish-red and large, blooming here in April.<br \/>\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/trees\/crabapples-apples\/purple-leaf-crabapple\/\">View tree page and map.<\/a><\/p><\/li><\/ul><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A deciduous fruit tree, the Crabapple produces a small, tart apple that makes excellent jellies and is also used for pickling. There are many varieties of this species distinguished by the variety of their delicate flowers. They are grown as&nbsp;&hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/trees\/crabapples-apples\/purple-leaf-crabapple\/\">finish&nbsp;reading&nbsp;Purple Leaf Crabapple<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":398,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"trees_template.php","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-120","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/trees\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/120","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/trees\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/trees\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/trees\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/trees\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=120"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/trees\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/120\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1331,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/trees\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/120\/revisions\/1331"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/trees\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/398"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/trees\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=120"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}