Malus coronaria (L.) Mill.

• Region

  North America

• Country

  United States of America

• State/Province

  Maryland

• County/Municipio

  Prince George's Co.

• Locality

  West of the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad and one mile southeast of the Beltsville field station of the Bureau of Plant Industry

• Coordinates

  39.0216, -76.862

• Coordinate Uncertainty (m)

  5381.35

• Georeferencing Method

  GEOLocate Web Application. Located coord of geogr center of Beltsville field station. Measured from coord. to farthest extent of area=linear extent. Input info (including offset 1 mi SE) into MaNIS Georef Calc to find offset coord+uncert.

• Distribution

  Map all specimens of this taxon

Malus coronaria (L.) Miller
E. E. Dickson 15 November 2009
AMERICAN CRABAPPLES
COLLECTED AND GROWN BY F. B. LINCOLN AT THE UNIVERSITY
OF MARYLAND FARM IN PRINCE GEORGE'S COUNTY, MARYLAND
West of the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad and one mile southeast of the
Beltsville field station of the Bureau of Plant Industry
Malus coronaria (L.) Mill.
ORIGINAL SOURCE:
GROWN BY F. B. LINCOLN.
from seeds collected in the Arnold Arboretum,
Jamaica Plain, Mass., in 1935
description of plant: More than 100 seedlings from
this plant appear to be identical with the parent
CYTOLOGICAL DATA OBTAINED BY F. B. LINCOLN (chromosome counts
made on root-tips of seedlings from open-pollinated fruits of this plant):
2n = 68 (reported in Proc.Am.Soc.Hort.Sci. 34: 26.
1937)
COLLECTED BY ROGERS McVAUGH (No. 6641 ) SEPTEMBER 14, 1942
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