This shrub to small tree is a short trunk with spreading purplish-brown branchlets that form an open rounded crown. It has dark-green oval leaves and the double pale pink saucer-shaped flowers appear in a nodding cluster during spring followed by a red fruit.

Hardiness zones 4 to 9 

Malus halliana it is naturally found in China and Japan growing along water courses in thickets on low mountain slopes from sea level to an altitude of 1200 m (3937 ft). 

It prefers a then open a sunny wind protected position and grows in well-drained fertile moist sandy to clay soils with a pH 5.5-7.5 and is frost and mildly drought tolerant.  

The Hall Crabapple is grown for its flowers and attractive fruit. It is planted in parks and gardens as a specimen or mass planted long avenues. It is suitable for coastal and low-mountain regions establishing in 3-5 years and is long-lived. This plant is also used in Japanese gardens or grown as a bonsai specimen. ID 3705

Malus (MAH-lus) halliana (HAL-ee-AH-nah)

'Malus': Latin name for the apple.

Rosaceae (ro-ZAY-see-ee)
Rose Family