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Malus × dasyphylla Borkh.

Paradise Apple

Rosaceae

A hybrid: M. domestica × M. sylvestris, the parents Kew's World Checklist states for it (WCVP, RBG Kew).

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About the genus · Malus

Malus is a genus of about 32–57 species of small deciduous trees or shrubs in the rose family Rosaceae. It includes the domesticated orchard apple, crabapples, and wild apples.

Quoted from Wikipedia, "Malus", CC BY-SA 4.0.

Cultivation

Nothing derived: no habitat climate for this species.

Climate across the habitat

No habitat climate can be derived: Native range not verified: no WCVP distribution with native status for this name, so records cannot be told from cultivation and no habitat climate is derived. 19 of the 98 in-range records are placed to worse than 10 km, or to no stated accuracy and fewer than three decimals or by something other than a person's observation, and cannot place a climate cell, though they count for the map and its marker.

Natural habitat

No native range: WCVP lists no region where it is native.
Openly licensed records, not tested against the stated range, framed on where they fall.
NativeWCVP lists no region where it is native; the regions it does list are named here. · introduced: Great Britain, Austria, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, France, Albania, Bulgaria, Greece, Romania, Yugoslavia · regions are the level-3 units of the World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions, as Kew's World Checklist records ranges, some under historical names such as Yugoslavia or Czechoslovakia (how).
Kew's description“tree” · “temperate” · quoted from WCVP, RBG Kew (CC BY 4.0); not derived here
Evidence usedNo verified native range for this name: WCVP has no entry with native status, and a checklist that only reports presence cannot tell a wild record from a garden one. The map shows 84 openly licensed records of 98 untested against any range; no map marker or climate is derived from them, and no sheet is built from them. 19 in-range records are placed to worse than 10 km, or with no stated accuracy (admitted only as a person's observation to three decimals), and stay on the map but off the climate.

Photographs

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Photographs: Stefan.lefnaer, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (6).

Other Malus 31 in the reference

Malus angustifolia Malus angustifolia Southern crab apple Photo: CC0, author not statedMalus asiatica Malus asiatica Chinese Pearleaf Crabapple Photo: CC BY-SA, Łukasz SzczurowskiMalus baccata Malus baccata Siberian crabapple Photo: CC0, author not statedMalus coronaria Malus coronaria Sweet crab apple Photo: CC BY, Skyler PrincipeMalus delavayi Malus delavayi Rosaceae Photo: Public domain, DaderotMalus domestica Malus domestica Apple Photo: CC BY, Alexander DubyninMalus doumeri Malus doumeri Rosaceae Photo: CC BY, Jacy Chen Malus florentina Rosaceae Malus × floribunda Malus × floribunda Japanese crab Photo: CC BY, Owen and Carol Fawcett.Malus fusca Malus fusca Oregon crab apple Photo: CC0, author not statedMalus halliana Malus halliana Hall crab apple Photo: CC BY, Jo Roberts Malus honanensis Honan Crab Apple all 32 ›

Names & registers

Also known as Malus communis subsp. dasyphylla; Malus domestica var. dasyphylla; Malus sylvestris var. dasyphylla; Pyrus malus var. dasyphylla. (GBIF Backbone)

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The record

Family
Rosaceae
Described by
Borkh.
Native to
not verified
Records
98 georeferenced · 84 open · range not tested

Every figure here is derived from public data by a stated rule and names its source; nothing about this species is written for its page by a person or by AI, apart from the marked, credited quotations. How →

Where this page came from built 2026-10-22
GBIF species record gbif.species answeredasked 2026-10-22
GBIF synonyms gbif.synonyms answeredasked 2026-10-22
GBIF common names gbif.vernacular answeredasked 2026-10-22names fetched 2026-10-22
WCVP native range wcvp.distribution answeredas of 2026-06-04Kew's entry lists no native region, only 10 where it is introduced
GBIF occurrence records gbif.occurrences answeredas of 2026-10-21GBIF occurrence download https://doi.org/10.15468/dl.hbdw64, of 2026-10-21
Habitat climate climate nothing to reportasked 2026-10-22native range not verified: no WCVP distribution with native status for this name, so records cannot be told from cultivation and no habitat climate is derived
Wikidata wikidata answeredasked 2026-10-22
Wikipedia wikipedia nothing to reportasked 2026-10-22
iNaturalist photographs, wild inat.photos.wild nothing to reportasked 2026-10-22from iNaturalist's open data of 2026-09-27: research-grade observations with an open-licence photograph, the 24 whose photographs iNaturalist received last (the open data holds no votes); filled 2026-10-22
iNaturalist photographs, cultivated inat.photos.cultivated not asked
GBIF media gbif.media nothing to reportasked 2026-10-22
Wikimedia Commons commons answeredasked 2026-10-22
OpenAlex papers openalex not askednot yet asked for this reference; a later fill takes the papers from OpenAlex's snapshot

Every source is recorded as having answered, reported nothing, refused, failed, not been asked, or answered twice where one answer is taken (“not taken: two items answered”), and, for a source asked when this page was built, when: the figures are as the source held them that day; a source read from a file (Kew's World Checklist, a GBIF download) says "as of" the file's day instead; a row carried from an earlier build of the page names that build instead. Only “nothing to report” is ever shown as an absence. Records came from 24 datasets via GBIF.org; each carries its own licence.

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