Malus
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Description
Trees or shrubs, unarmed or with thorns, mostly deciduous.
Leaves simple, lobed or toothed.
Flowers in few-flowered, simple racemes.
Ovary inferior, carpels completely ad-nate with the hypanthium and without exposed free top, 3-5-celled, styles connate at base.
Fruit a pome, mesocarp fleshy, in most species without stone cells, endocarp cartilaginous.