Malus ‘Ballerina Maypole’

Malus ‘Ballerina Maypole’ has a columnar growth habit and produces large carmine-red blossoms that are nestled among the new copper-red leaves in the spring. In the autumn, large dark-red crabapples stud the branches of Malus ‘Ballerina Maypole’. Malus ‘Ballerina Maypole’ is also resistant to disease. Malus ‘Ballerina Maypole’ is deciduous, not native to New Zealand, and a hybrid between Malus domestica ‘Wijcik McIntosh’ and Malus ‘Baskatong’. Malus ‘Ballerina Maypole’ was developed by Kenneth Tobutt at the East Malling Research Station in Kent, England and was introduced in 1988.