Malus x purpurea ‘Neville Copeman’ | Crabapple Tree

Abundant orange-red fruits and pink blossom

Malus x purpurea ‘Neville Copeman’ is a heavy-fruiting tree which produces distinctive orange-red fruits, which remain throughout autumn and into winter. As with all crab apples, ‘Neville Copeman’ is very popular with bees, and thus will bring more pollinators into your garden, which is a blessing if you have other apple trees. ‘Neville Copeman’ is especially good as a pollinator for all apple trees, and flowers throughout the pollination season, which gives it more chance to pollinate more trees. The fruits of this tree can sometimes be eaten fresh, although they can be sour. They are better stewed and used as jams, as they have high levels of pectin, which helps with the setting of jam.

Variety Information

• Habit: Bushy
• Flower Colour: Pale purple/pink in spring
• Foliage Colour: Purple in spring/green and flushed purple in summer.
• Fruit Colour: Red
• Fruit Uses: Jelly-Making, Cider-Making
• Pollination Group: 3
• Features: Spring Blossom, Attractive Fruits, Autumn Colour