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Narrow-Leaved Crab Apple

NARROW-LEAVED CRAB APPLE (Mains angustifolia, Michx.) shrub to N feet. Like the preceding species, but more deli cate throughout. Distinguished by its leaves, which are narrow, blunt at both ends, 11 to 3 inches long, dark green, almost leathery, lustrous, with dull, often fuzzy lining. Dist.:

New Jersey and Pennsylvania to Florida; west to Louisiana; north into Tennessee; forest valleys, along streams, and in sandy upland hollows in the southern pine belts. Fruit and wood used as in preceding species.