Planted: 2016

This tree is on the north side of the Malus Avenue.

Native to the Yunnan province of China and Myanmar. Rare in the wild.

Grown from seed obtained in 2016 from The Place for Plants, East Bergholt Place Garden, East Bergholt, Suffolk.

Small tree to 10 m with narrow, upright habit.

Branches are dark purple and densely hairy when young.

Buds are dark purple, ovoid; scales glabrous or sparsely hairy at margin.

Leaf blade ovate, 6 to 12 cm by 4 to 7 cm, often with 3 to 5 lobes on each side.

Single white flowers about 1.5 cm diameter. Blooms in late spring; May in the wild.

Fruit typically red, often with white dots, August to September. Are 1 to 1.5 cm diameter, with a cup shaped depression at the apex; flesh astringent, gritty with stone cells.