chance garden hybrid: quercus x malus
WHAT HAPPENS WHEN YOU CROSS A CRABAPPLE WITH AN OAK? You get a photo like the one above (if not an actual intergeneric hybrid tree). This wind-borne balancing act didn’t register at first when I spied it the other day, but then I whipped my head back around and had a good smile, and a snapshot. What would you call such a freakish genetic combination of crabapple (Malus) and oak (Quercus) if it did actually exist? A croak?
Querple? It leaves me Querplexed!
Welcome, Janis, and you ain’t kidding! I swear I did a double take when I saw it. Hilarious. Hope to see you again soon.
ROFL! You had me going for a while!
A good laugh at the end of my work week. Thanks!
I don’t know, but would the fruit be crabcorns?
I love how the acorn hats stay on sometimes after the acorn nut falls. It’s cold here in Maryland so I know it has to be cold at your gardening haven. It’s hard to imagine the strength of the mighty oak contained int that tiny acorn.
Candylei and Sir Salty
Marcus? (MAlus and QueRCUS)
@Michelle: Perfect! Marcus it is.