Claim · model-written summary
The authors suggest selecting cultivars by flower or fruit color, tree size and branching habit for now.
- Taxon
- Crabapplet0
- Outcome
- selections can be based on other traits such as color of flowers or fruit, tree size, and branching habite0
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e0“Until then, selections can be based on other traits such as color of flowers or fruit, tree size, and branching habit.”
t0“Crabapple”
Title
Street Tree Performance Tests of Crabapple Cultivars: Initial Results
Henry Gerhold; Heather McElroy; Heather Rhodes Arboriculture & Urban Forestry 1994. doi:10.48044/jauf.1994.016
Other claims from this paper (6)
- Observation Height and trunk diameter growth varied substantially among locations.
- Observation Disease and insect exposure varied among locations.
- Observation The principal pests included gypsy moth, Japanese beetle, scab and aphid.
- Observation Large Brandywine fruit caused problems in one community but not two others.
- Observation All ten cultivars grew well and remained healthy at most locations.
- Recommendation Early differences were insufficient to recommend one cultivar over another.