Malus toringoides

Malus toringoides

Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
(unranked):	Angiosperms
(unranked):	Eudicots
(unranked):	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

↑ Li, Y. N. 2001. Researches of germplasm resources of Malus Mill.. – China Agriculture Press

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

"Crabapple" or "Wild apple" (of the genus Malus)

Species, varieties and cultivars	Malus angustifolia (Southern) Malus asiatica (Chinese pearleaf) Malus baccata (Siberian) Malus bracteata Malus brevipes Malus coronaria (Sweet) Malus domestica (Orchard) Malus doumeri Malus 'Evereste' Malus florentina Malus floribunda (Japanese) Malus fusca (Oregon/Pacific) Malus glabrata Malus glaucescens Malus halliana Malus honanensis Malus hopa (Flowering) Malus hupehensis (Tea) Malus ioensis (Prairie) Malus kansuensis Malus lancifolia Malus × micromalus (Midget) Malus niedzwetskyana Malus prattii Malus prunifolia Malus pumila (feral - Syn. of M. domestica?) Malus rockii Malus sargentii Malus sieboldii Malus sieversii (Asian wild/Almaty) Malus sikkimensis Malus spectabilis Malus sublobata Malus sylvestris (European wild) Malus toringoides Malus transitoria Malus trilobata Malus tschonoskii Malus yunnanensis

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