'Kent' Crabapple Released from the
Missouri State
Fruit Experiment Station
(U. S. 1)
(parentage unknown)
'Kent' crabapple fruit is about 2 inches in diameter;
round to conic; stem length medium, calyx small, closed; skin thin, tough,
vermillion overcast with yellowish-white; flesh juicy, crisp, sprightly
sub-acid, fine-grained, faintly yellow, flavor good; may be eaten fresh,
matures about September 5 in southern Missouri. Tree is vigorous, upright,
spreading; hardy.
Introduced 1956.
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