Malus sylvestris
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Growing form
A shrub or a small, spiny tree. The crown is wide and low. The foliage consists of numerous small leaves.
Size
3–8 m high.
Stem
The twigs are spiny. The bole is crooked or even twisted. The annual shoots are thin, lustrous maroon and glabrate.
Leaf
The petiole is 1.5–3 cm long, about half the length of the lamina. The lamina is 3–8 cm long, simple, ovate, short-acuminate, serrate, glabrous or scant-pubescent beneath along the veins. The buds are glabrate.
Flower
The inflorescence is a two-to-six-flowered umbel. The pedicel and sepals are glabrous. The petals are 12–15 mm, white – pink and do not overlap each other. There are 15–20 stamens and 3–5 carpels in a flower. The ovary is inferior.
Fruit and seed
The apple is 1–2 cm, globose, long-stalked, green and bitter.
The map represents observations of this taxon, but it may not be used as a distribution map.
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- metsäomenapuu (Finnish)
- vildapel (Swedish)
- AOV - spontaneous, old, resident
Threatened species (NCD 1997/160, Appendix 4 2021/521) ? Plant species that are protected in the whole country (NCD 1997/160, Appendix 3a 2021/521) ? OUTDATED Safeguarding Endangered Species in Forestry – Project 2007-2010 ? Connectivity of forest conservation areas – SUMI Project 2020 ? Vascular plants – SUMI Project 2022 ? Crop wild relative (CWR Priority species) ? Safeguarding Endangered Species in Forestry – Lajiturva Project 2019–2021 ? Species used in the automatic procedure for forest use notifications (MKI-OHKE 2023) ? OUTDATED Threatened species (NCD 1997/160, Appendix 4 2013/471) ?
- 2019 VU – Vulnerable
- 2010 VU – Vulnerable
- 2000 VU – Vulnerable
- Arto Kurtto
- Vascular plants