Cardinally beautiful
by Sonali Gangane
Title
Cardinally beautiful
Artist
Sonali Gangane
Medium
Photograph - Photography
Description
Malus (pron.: /ˈmeɪləs/[3] or /ˈmæləs/), apple, is a genus of about 30–55 species of small deciduous trees or shrubs in the family Rosaceae, including the domesticated orchard apple (M. domestica). The other species are generally known as crabapples, crab apples, crabs, or wild apples.
The genus is native to the temperate zone of the Northern Hemisphere.
Crabapples are popular as compact ornamental trees, providing blossom in Spring and colourful fruit in Autumn.
They are also used as pollinizers in apple orchards. Varieties of crabapple are selected to bloom contemporaneously with the apple variety in an orchard planting, and the crabs are planted every sixth or seventh tree, or limbs of a crab tree are grafted onto some of the apple trees. In emergencies, a bucket or drum bouquet of crabapple flowering branches are placed near the beehives as orchard pollenizers. See also Fruit tree pollination. Because of the plentiful blossoms and small fruit, crabapples are popular for use in bonsai culture.
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April 23rd, 2013
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BASANT SONI
The wonderful theme/presentation in this image with Bird + F Sonali as u know that suitably dried petals of such flowers & leaves as seen in this work (before perishing) are also used to create 'Eco-Friendly Art' along with other dried ingredients on processed Bark Canvas of a palm tree.