Malus domestica

Deciduous tree.

3–8 m high.

The branches are typically unarmed and erectopatent to patent. A young shoot is pubescent.

The leaf arrangement is spiral. The leaves are stipulate. The petiole is 1–2 cm long. The lamina is 5– 12 cm long, simple, elliptic, short-acuminate, serrate and typically densely pubescent on both sides.

The tree is monoecious. The inflorescence is an umbel with 2–6 flowers. The flowers are bisexual and actinomorphic. The pedicel is at most 2.5 cm long. The calyx is five-lobed. The corolla is 3.5–5 cm wide, five-leaved, unguiculate petals that partially overlap each other, and the color varies from white to pink. The ovary is inferior.

The fruit (3–10 cm) is a globose valvate capsule enclosed by yellow – green – red, fleshy receptacle that is typically sweet when ripe. There is a pit at both ends of the fruit and remnants of calyx left at the apex.