Hupeh/Tea Chinese Crab Apple, Large Trees

Malus hupehensis: Bareroot Hupeh / Tea Crab Apple Trees in Standard Sizes

Malus hupehensis is a Chinese crab apple tree, known as the Hupeh / Hubei / Hupei Tea Crab apple. This small, goblet shaped tree is covered with white blossom in spring, sometimes touched with pink, which matures into bright red fruit that look like cherries and either make the most delightful pink crab apple jelly, or adorn the branches well into winter. It looks superb in Autumn and makes a lovely specimen for the centre of a lawn.
Older trees will start to spread out and can develop a wide, rounded canopy up to about 6 metres tall.

Browse our variety of crab apple trees or our full range of trees.

Delivery season: Crab apple trees are delivered bareroot during late autumn and winter, approximately November-March inclusive.
Choosing a size: Small trees are cheaper, easier to handle and more forgiving of less than ideal aftercare, so they are best for a big planting project. If instant impact is your priority, or if you are only buying a few plants for use in a place where it is convenient to water them well in their first year, then you may as well use bigger ones. All our bareroot trees are measured by their height in centimetres above the ground (the roots aren't measured).

Features:

• Height: 6m
• Soil: Any well drained
• Use: Specimen, small gardens, urban
• Colour: Mostly white blossom in May
• Cherry-like crabs remain on branches into winter
• Does not pollinate orchard apples
• RHS Award of Garden Merit
• RHS Plants for Pollinators
• Bareroot delivery only: November-March

Growing Hupeh Crab Apple Trees

Any well drained soil, tolerates partial shade and urban pollution well. It is drought tolerant and not bothered by strong winds, but can't grow on the coast.

Please Note: This tree is sterile and will not pollinate other apple trees. If you are looking for a pollinator for an orchard choose either John Downie and Golden Hornet. The bees don't mind, however, and will eat their fill.