Malus sieversii. I got a grafted malus sieversii that supposedly makes really nice fruit so i planted it recently. I made an effort to protect it really well since i get a lot of damage from deer. Malus sieversii was found to be the ancestor of all modern apples. Trees were found in kazakhstan that were estimated to be 4 to 5 hundred years old. Trees of 30 meters height! (98 feet) were also discovered. When the apple made its way to the modern world a lot of genetic diversity was lost in the process and nowadays malus sieversii is being used widely in apple breeding to reintroduce disease resistance and other useful traits into modern varieties.
I weeded all my malus sieversii trees and i lost quite a few to what i believe was a combination of deer, rabbit and rodent attacks. I think i lost between one fourth and one third of the 426 plants i grew from seed. I discovered some visually very amazing and different ones in two of the six seed batches. I singled out several unique ones that i planted in my polytunnel to grow them properly. I didn't have the time to protect the 426 as i would have liked to. All trees of the 4 other batches have basically green leaves. Here is one example. This is a very nice green leaved one. And another green leaved one. Already these two are different in leaf colour and shape. But i selected them from the batches where all had green leaves in order to be sure to have genetic diversity. I kept 18 seedlings in the polytunnel that contain some of every batch. The following ones are very special and unique and display many variations of red and green and even other colours. One seedling with nice
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