Malus toringoides

Not to be confused with Malus transitoria, which is also called the cut-leaf crabapple.

Malus toringoides
Scientific classification
Kingdom:Plantae
Clade:Angiosperms
Clade:Eudicots
Clade:Rosids
Order:Rosales
Family:Rosaceae
Genus:Malus
Species: M. toringoides
Binomial name
Malus toringoides
Hughes

Malus toringoides is a crabapple species in the family Rosaceae, with the common name cut-leaf crabapple.

The tree is endemic to mountain ranges of China, located within Shaanxi, Gansu, Ningxia, Qinghai and Sichuan Provinces.

Malus toringoides is a wild crabapple tree, and is sometimes used as a root stock in apple hybridizing. It is a naturally occurring hybrid species with multiple ploidy levels.[1]

References

  1. Li, Y. N. 2001. Researches of germplasm resources of Malus Mill.. – China Agriculture Press
  • Tang, L.; Li, J.; Tan, S.; Li, M.-X.; Ma, X.; Zhou, Z.-Q. (2014). "New insights into the hybrid origin of Malus toringoides and its close relatives based on a single-copy nuclear gene SbeI and three chloroplast fragments". Journal of Sytematics Evolution. 52: 477–486. doi:10.1111/jse.12079.


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