Location:

• Moist soils
• Found in openings and borders of forests

Characteristics:

• Deciduous tree
• Small tree, broad, open crown with stout branches
• Height: 9 m (30 feet)
• Reddish hairs on blades and leafstalks when young

Uses:

• Fruit can be eaten raw, bitter flavor

Leaves:

• 5-10 cm (2-4 in) long; 4 cm (1½ in wide)
• Ovate, coarsely toothed past middle
• Yellow-green in color above, paler underside

Bark:

• reddish-brown color
• scaly, fissured texture

Fruiting Structures:

• White or pink flowers, with 5 rounded petals
• Fruit yellow-green, like a small apple, late summer