Malus toringoides explained

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

• Tang . L. . Li . J. . Tan . S. . Li . M.-X. . Ma . X. . Zhou . Z.-Q. . 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 Systematics and Evolution . 52 . 4 . 477–486 . 2014 . 10.1111/jse.12079 . 82625023 .

Notes and References

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