Article download: Crab apples season by season

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Great blossom, a reliable cropper and perfect for jams and jellies, the crab apple has much to commend it, says David Patch.

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It may surprise you to know that Malus sylvestris, the true European crab apple, is actually getting rather rare in the wild. Although crab apple trees are a common sight in hedgerows and forest edges, most of the crabs you’ll see are from discarded cores of cultivated supermarket varieties, or where the seeds have been spread by birds. Apples, famously, do not come true from.