Malus trilobata, the Lebanese wild apple, also known as the erect crab apple, Turkish apple, three-lobed apple or deer apple, is a species of apple (Malus) in the rose family (Rosaceae). It has a discontinuous range in the eastern Mediterranean, including Thrace, coastal Anatolia and the Levant, but almost always as a rare species. First described in 1810 as Crataegus trilobata, it has a complex taxonomic history, and some authorities place it in the segregate genus Eriolobus, as Eriolobus trilobatus, either alone or together with the closely related Italian crabapple (Malus florentina) from the central Mediterranean.
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Is it poisonous?
We have no record of Lebanese Wild Apple being toxic, poisonous or venomous. That is not proof that it is safe. Never eat, touch or handle a wild plant, mushroom or animal on the strength of an identification; ask someone qualified.
Easily confused with
Classification
- Kingdom
- Plantae
- Phylum
- Tracheophyta
- Class
- Magnoliopsida
- Order
- Rosales
- Family
- Rosaceae
- Genus
- Eriolobus
- Species
- Eriolobus trilobatus
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