Budapest, 03 January 2017 - The National Forestry Association poll the crab apple triumphed. The year 2017 is the fruit and the wood of the tree was once a popular material. The purpose of the tree of the Year initiative for raising awareness and preservation, a species may have high importance for the forest, but the attention is diverted from them yet.
The crab apple tree, the Hungarian forests of rare special, most lasting only a week during flowering, fruit ripening perhaps noticed, otherwise it will be hidden from our eyes.
In our country, you will also find middle mountain and lowland the living conditions, but everywhere rare species, often only one population is in your counter, so expect an endangered species.

The crab apples usually at 6-10 meters tall-growing trees, trunk diameter at the end of his life 20-25 centimeter. The 80-100-year-old Methuselah specimens have been counted. Inflorescence in the second half of April, the event will bring rainy and cool weather later. Flower color can never show pure white but varying shades of pink. Strong-smelling flowers bees during the day, morning, evening and cool days, wasps, moths pollinate night.
The fruits ripen in September-October, 2-4 cm in diameter, greenish yellow when ripe, perhaps tinged with red, taste is very sour, tough meat. The fruit of long ago due to vitamin C jellies, cider, brandy and vinegar is made, and the high vitamin C content of tea brewed from it, fever, colds and diarrhea counter. Its fruit provides an excellent feed wildlife, especially deer and wild boar prefers, but the birds and small mammals by ingestion.
Previously, because of the tree toughness clock gears and drives used in plants, car manufacturers have made it the most durable sled feet. In addition, the best rulers and drawing board is made of it.
 

Today, the forest wild apples maintaining biodiversity is important in many organisms linked to it. Unfortunately, the number of species in danger, one of which is that of the wild seedlings and sprouts liked to consume. In these days of growing young trees is often a great distance away from each other that cross-pollination is no chance, and therefore inbreeding occurs. The flowers pastures for bee serve an important role as well in the near future will be the precious apple resistance breeding, since the crab apple powdery mildew, apple mosaic of impetigo and completely against frost resistant. In addition, due to the use of the precious air of tolerance for propagation of apple varieties as their subject will certainly increase in the future!
The National Forestry Association (OEE) was launched 20 years ago of the Year Tree of movement, which is administered by online voting since 2013 within the framework of your fellow members forester, foresters colleagues and outside the trade visitors in attendance. During the 2010s it may have been so focused on the silver linden, yew, of Prunus Padus, home rowan, field maple and oak and elm as well.