Species profile
Sargents Apple
Malus sargentii
16,912 on Toronto's streets — 2.45% of the city's catalogued canopy.
🌸 Blooms May 1 – May 12: white, profuse, small red fruit persists into winter
Toronto history — A compact Japanese flowering crabapple. Toronto has planted ~17,000 of them in residential contexts — small enough to fit where a full-size tree wouldn't.
Malus sargentii, the Sargent crabapple or Sargent's apple, is a species of flowering plant in the genus Malus of the family Rosaceae. The species was formerly considered a variety of the species Malus sieboldii. It is a shrub or small tree growing to 6–10 ft (1.8–3.0 m) tall and 6–12 ft (1.8–3.7 m) broad.
Where they cluster
| Neighbourhood | Trees |
|---|---|
| Banbury-Don Mills | 460 |
| Hillcrest Village | 454 |
| Don Valley Village | 351 |
| St.Andrew-Windfields | 345 |
| Stonegate-Queensway | 338 |
| Bedford Park-Nortown | 312 |
| Newtonbrook West | 311 |
| West Humber-Clairville | 290 |
Notable specimens
- 143 cm DBH at 10 CARNFORTH RD · view →
- 140 cm DBH at 5332 LAWRENCE AVE E · view →
- 120 cm DBH at 4 FORDHAM PL · view →
- 120 cm DBH at 11 BURKE ST · view →
- 112 cm DBH at 67 SANDBOURNE CRES · view →
- 102 cm DBH at 42 PASADENA GDNS · view →
- 100 cm DBH at 159 COTTONWOOD DR · view →
- 100 cm DBH at 7 DALEBERRY PL · view →