Description

Full sun, Zone 2

Malus ‘Durleo’

Pot size #5

A very hardy, upright columnar ornamental tree with showy pink flowers that are followed purple fruit and rich burgundy-purple leaves that are on show all season. During mid-spring the Gladiator Flowering Crabapple is covered in clusters of the fragrant pink flowers, which emerge from the rose-shaped flower buds before the leaves. The deep purple foliage becomes burgundy in Spring, and the pointy leaves will turn yellow in the Fall. Great to use as an accent or as a vertical accent.

The tree grows at a medium rate. It should only be grown in full sunlight. It prefers average to moist conditions, but shouldn’t be allowed to dry out. This is a an interspecific hybrid variety.