Other Names:  Roseybloom, Crabapple

Description:

A spectacular ornamental tree for home landscape use, with an abundance of pink flowers with reddish veins in spring and yellow fruit streaked red in fall, spreading habit of growth; needs well-drained soil and full sun

Ornamental Features

Strawberry Parfait Flowering Crab is covered in stunning clusters of fragrant pink flowers with shell pink overtones and rose edges along the branches in mid spring, which emerge from distinctive dark red flower buds before the leaves. It has attractive dark green deciduous foliage which emerges purple in spring. The pointy leaves are highly ornamental and turn yellow in fall. The fruits are showy yellow pomes carried in abundance from early to late fall.

Landscape Attributes

Strawberry Parfait Flowering Crab is a deciduous tree with a more or less rounded form. Its average texture blends into the landscape, but can be balanced by one or two finer or coarser trees or shrubs for an effective composition.

This tree will require occasional maintenance and upkeep, and is best pruned in late winter once the threat of extreme cold has passed. It has no significant negative characteristics.

Strawberry Parfait Flowering Crab is recommended for the following landscape applications;

• Accent
• Shade

Planting & Growing

Strawberry Parfait Flowering Crab will grow to be about 20 feet tall at maturity, with a spread of 25 feet. It has a low canopy with a typical clearance of 4 feet from the ground, and is suitable for planting under power lines. It grows at a medium rate, and under ideal conditions can be expected to live for 50 years or more.

This tree should only be grown in full sunlight. It prefers to grow in average to moist conditions, and shouldn't be allowed to dry out. It is not particular as to soil type or pH. It is highly tolerant of urban pollution and will even thrive in inner city environments. This particular variety is an interspecific hybrid.