Summary
Verified:
06/16/2011
ARS Systematic Botanists.
Autonyms (not in current use), synonyms and invalid designations
Reference(s)
- Chinese Academy of Sciences. 1959-. Flora reipublicae popularis sinicae.
- Encke, F. et al. 1993. Zander: Handwörterbuch der Pflanzennamen, 14. Auflage
- Erhardt, W. et al. 2002. Zander: Handwörterbuch der Pflanzennamen, 17. Auflage
- Gardiner, S. E. et al. 2007. Chapter 1. Apple. Genome mapping and molecular breeding in plants (7 vols.) Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. 4:1-62. Note: this review cited "Malus baccata jackii" as a source of gene resistance to apple scab
- Huxley, A., ed. 1992. The new Royal Horticultural Society dictionary of gardening
- Krüssmann, G. 1984. Manual of cultivated broad-leaved trees and shrubs (English translation of Handbuch der Laubgehölze. 1976)
- Kunkel, G. 1984. Plants for human consumption
- Markle, G. M. et al., eds. 1998. Food and feed crops of the United States, ed. 2
- Porcher, M. H. et al. Searchable World Wide Web Multilingual Multiscript Plant Name Database (MMPND) (on-line resource).
- Rehm, S. 1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants
- Reichel, S. 1998. pers. comm. Note: re. German common names
- Walters, S. M. et al., eds. 1986-2000. European garden flora.
- Wu Zheng-yi & P. H. Raven et al., eds. 1994-. Flora of China (English edition).
Common names
English
Chinese crab apple – Siberian crab apple – French
pommier à baies – pommier à petits fruits – German
Beerenapfelbaum – Beerenapfelstrauch – Osagedorn – Spanish
manzano – Transcribed Chinese
shan jing zi –
Distribution
| order_code | Status | Continent | Subcontinent | Country | State | Note |
| 1 | Native | Asia-Temperate | China | China | Gansu Sheng | |
| 1 | Native | Asia-Temperate | China | China | Hebei Sheng | |
| 1 | Native | Asia-Temperate | China | China | Heilongjiang Sheng | |
| 1 | Native | Asia-Temperate | China | China | Jilin Sheng | |
| 1 | Native | Asia-Temperate | China | China | Liaoning Sheng | |
| 1 | Native | Asia-Temperate | China | China | Nei Mongol Zizhiqu | |
| 1 | Native | Asia-Temperate | China | China | Shaanxi Sheng | |
| 1 | Native | Asia-Temperate | China | China | Shandong Sheng | |
| 1 | Native | Asia-Temperate | China | China | Shanxi Sheng | |
| 1 | Native | Asia-Temperate | Eastern Asia | Korea | | |
| 1 | Native | Asia-Temperate | Mongolia | Mongolia | | |
| 1 | Native | Asia-Temperate | Russian Far East | Russian Federation | Amur | |
| 1 | Native | Asia-Temperate | Russian Far East | Russian Federation | Khabarovsk | |
| 1 | Native | Asia-Temperate | Russian Far East | Russian Federation | Primorye | |
| 1 | Native | Asia-Temperate | Siberia | Russian Federation-Eastern Siberia | Eastern Siberia | s. |
| 2 | Cultivated | | | | | also cult. |
Native
Asia-Temperate
-
SIBERIA:
Russian Federation-Eastern Siberia [Eastern Siberia (s.)]
-
MONGOLIA:
Mongolia
-
RUSSIAN FAR EAST:
Russian Federation [Amur, Khabarovsk, Primorye]
-
CHINA:
China [Gansu Sheng, Hebei Sheng, Heilongjiang Sheng, Jilin Sheng, Liaoning Sheng, Nei Mongol Zizhiqu, Shaanxi Sheng, Shandong Sheng, Shanxi Sheng]
-
EASTERN ASIA:
Korea
Cultivated
(also cult.)
Economic Uses
| Usage | Type | Note | Reference |
| Environmental | ornamental | | Huxley, A., ed. 1992. The new Royal Horticultural Society dictionary of gardening |
| Human food | fruit | | Markle, G. M. et al., eds. 1998. Food and feed crops of the United States, ed. 2 |
| Human food | fruit | | Kunkel, G. 1984. Plants for human consumption |
Cite as: USDA, Agricultural Research Service, National Plant Germplasm System.
2025. Germplasm Resources Information Network
(GRIN Taxonomy). National Germplasm Resources Laboratory, Beltsville, Maryland.
URL: https://grip.mawarid.gov.om/gringlobal/taxon/taxonomydetail?id=320217.
Accessed 26 May 2025.