crab apples
Small sour fruits
Crab apples are small, tart apples that grow wild or are cultivated for ornamental purposes.
Too sour to eat raw, they're used in jellies, preserves, and cider.
The trees produce showy spring blossoms.
Figuratively, a crab apple (or just crab) is a sour, ill-tempered person: Don't be such a crab apple.
- fruit treesCultivated plants bearing edible produce
- astringentTissue-contracting agent
- sour tasteSharp, acidic flavor sensation
- jellyFruit spread, no seeds
- jam makingPreserving fruit with sugar
pectin · sour · tartness · fruits · cider · Whitney · trees · hedgerow · backyard orchard · cultivar · rootstock · grafting · galas · pollinators · deciduous · preserves · chutney · seed dispersal
- Wild Foodswild berries, wild mushrooms, wild greens, wild honey, wild strawberries
cultivated sweetness and edibility
crab appleseating apples
Consuming pome fruit
Honeycrisp · Red Delicious · Golden Delicious · Granny Smith · McIntosh
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