A580: Malus kansuensis

Shrub or small tree, 3–5 m, sometimes strongly armed with stout thorns. Branchlets purplish and finely hairy when young, glabrous later. Buds dark purple, ovoid; scales tomentose at margin. Leaf blade ovate, 5–8 × 4–6 cm, dark green and glabrous above, paler and sometimes sparsely hairy beneath; base rounded or truncate; apex acute or acuminate; margin doubly toothed, often 3-lobed; petiole 1.5–4 cm. Inflorescence a 4–10-flowered corymb, 5–6.5 cm across; pedicels 2.5–3.5 cm, sometimes sparsely hairy. Flowers 1.5–2 cm diameter, in late spring (May-June in the wild). Sepals triangular-ovate or triangular-lanceolate, 5–6 mm, shaggy above, often falling before fruit ripe; petals white, broadly obovate, about 1cm; stamens 20, unequal, about half the length of the petals; styles 3, slightly exceeding the stamens. Fruit yellow to red or purple, with pale dots, July to August in the wild, ellipsoid or obovoid, 1–1.5 cm diameter, with few stone cells.

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