Spring 2021New orders will be sent out week commencing 25th January
Pippin Trees banner logoChoose from over 280 flowering cherries, crab apples, rowans and other ornamental trees.
  1. Home
  2. Tree finder
Share?

List of crab-apples with purple or bronze leaves

A selection of flowering crab-apple trees with bronze or purple leaf colours.

10 varietiesClear all
View varieties

Categories

  • 3
  • 1
  • 2
  • 1
  • 1
  • 10
  • 7
  • 1
  • 2
  • 1
  • 2
  • 4
  • 1

Stock availability

  • 10
  • 0
  • 10

Available form

Growing

Gardening skill?

  • 7
  • 2

Awards?

  • 3

Attractive features

  • 9
  • 7
  • 6
  • 4
  • 1
  • 3

Growth habit?

  • 1
  • 2
  • 1
  • 2
  • 1

Height after 10 years

  • 2
  • 1
  • 4

Sunlight

  • 2

Pruning

  • 2
  • 1

Growth rate?

  • 1
  • 3
  • 1

Site conditions

Identification

Flower colour

  • 2
  • 4
  • 1
  • 3

Flower form?

  • 6
  • 1

Flowering month

  • 7
  • 1

Leaf colour

  • 41
  • 9
  • 1

Leaf colour - autumn?

  • 2
  • 3
  • 3

Leaf/Flower sequence

  • 2

Fruit colour

  • 1
  • 2
  • 1
  • 5

Fruit size

  • 3
  • 2
  • 1
  • 1

Fruit persistence?

  • 1
  • 1
  • 5

Food uses

  • 2

Bark

Country of origin

  • 1
  • 1
  • 1
  • 3
  • 3

Wildlife

  • 4
  • 7

Annual cycle

  • 10

Varieties list

  • Crab-apple trees

    Aros®

    Aros crab-apple trees
    A small slow-growing upright crab-apple, with bronze-green leaves, beautiful dark pink flowers with white centres, and maroon fruits in the autumn.
    • Fruit colour: Red - dark
    • Flower colour: Pink - dark
    • Leaf colour: Bronze
    Malus toringo
  • Crab-apple trees

    Cardinal

    Cardinal crab-apple trees
    Also known as Princeton Cardinal, a bronze-leaved crab-apple with pink-red spring blossom and red fruitlets in the autumn.
    • Fruit colour: Red - dark
    • Flower colour: Pink - dark
    • Leaf colour: Bronze
    Malus hupehensis
  • Crab-apple trees

    Crimson Cascade

    Crimson Cascade crab-apple trees
    A new weeping crab-apple with dusky pink blossom and small dark red fruitlets.
    £48.00buy
    • Fruit colour: Red - dark
    • Flower colour: Crimson
    • Leaf colour: Bronze
    Malus x purpurea
  • Crab-apple trees

    Indian Magic

    Indian Magic crab-apple trees
    An excellent all-round crab apple, with attractive bronze leaves, dusky pink blossom, and small persistent red fruits.
    • Fruit colour: Red
    • Flower colour: Pink
    • Leaf colour: Bronze
    Malus
  • Crab-apple trees

    Laura

    Laura crab-apple trees
    Malus Laura is a very upright dwarf crab-apple, with bronze leaves, crimson blossom and maroon fruitlets.
    • Flower colour: Crimson
    • Leaf colour: Bronze
    Malus
  • Crab-apple trees

    Profusion

    Profusion crab-apple trees
    Malus Profusion (also known as Directeur Moerlands) is a classic crab apple variety, with dense clusters of deep pink blossom followed by small crimson berry-like fruitlets.
    • Fruit colour: Red - dark
    • Flower colour: Crimson
    • Leaf colour: Bronze
    Malus x moerlandsii
  • Crab-apple trees

    Purpurea Evelyn

    Purpurea Evelyn crab-apple trees
    Malus Purpurea Evelyn is a purple-leaved form of the Prairie crab.
    • Fruit colour: Green / Yellow
    • Flower colour: Pink - dark
    • Leaf colour: Dark purple
    Malus ioensis
  • Crab-apple trees

    Roberts Crab

    Roberts Crab crab-apple trees
    An unusual red-fleshed crab-apple which has large purple fruits. The juice is a claret red colour.
    • Fruit colour: Purple
    • Flower colour: Pink - dark
    • Leaf colour: Bronze
    Malus
  • Crab-apple trees

    Royalty

    Royalty crab-apple trees
    Malus Royalty has bright purple-red blossom, dark green-bronze leaves, and dark red fruitlets.
    • Fruit colour: Red - dark
    • Flower colour: Red - dark
    • Leaf colour: Bronze
    Malus pumila
  • Crab-apple trees

    Scarlett

    Scarlett crab-apple trees
    Malus toringo Scarlett is an ornamental crab apple with bronze leaves, dusky pink blossom, and dark red fruitlets.
    • Fruit colour: Purple
    • Flower colour: Pink
    • Leaf colour: Bronze
    Malus toringo