Name: Crab Apple (Wild Crab)
Scientific name: Malus sylvestris
Irish name: Crann fia-úll
Provenance: Native
Family: Rosaceae
Leaf/Needle: Deciduous leaf/Simple leaf
Height: 10 meters
Size: Small
Flowering: Spring
Pollination: Insects
Seed dispersal: Birds and mammals
Value to wildlife: High
Timber use:
Turning, wood carving, firewood. It was used to make the heads of golf clubs. Mythology: Apples were believed to be associated with rebirth and were bury in graves . as food for the dead.
Ogham Alphabet:
Ogham letter Cert (Bush) Q. 10th consonant of the Ogham alphabet. 12th month of the Ogham tree calendar.
Classification in Early Irish law:
Airig fedo (Noble of the wood) Penalty for cutting one down, two and a half milk cows.