Showtime Crabapple

Malus 'Shotizam'

Planted 2017

This crabapple has an oval to rounded habit when mature, with a more upright habit when young. Its flowers are singular and magenta, producing red fruit that gets to about ½” in diameter. Its leaves are bronze in the summer and a fiery orange-red in the fall.

Showtime Crabapple
Close up of leaf of Showtime Crabapple
Close up of Showtime Crabapple bark
Height Width Zone Growth Rate Water Use
22 ft. 20 ft. 4-7 Medium Low

Leaf

Alternate, simple, serrate, bronze in the Summer, fiery orange-red in the Fall.

Fruit

Red, ½‘”, persistent.

Flower

Single, magenta.

Advantages

Adapts to many different soil types very resistant to mildew.

Disadvantages

May sucker.