A small, round topped tree around 30 to 40 ft. tall with delicious red fruit.

BUDS: Blunt and woolly.

TWIGS: Shirt and stiff, some with thorny tips; woolly; raised leaf scars; short spur branches with crowded leaf scars.

BARK: Fissured and scaly; dark brown.

HABITAT: Moist soils near houses, roadsides, and clearings.

USES: The trees have been cultivated for their fruit since ancient times and orchards were developed across the country by Jonathan Chapman, or Johnny Appleseed.