How to tell the difference between a crabapple tree and flowering cherry? and Flower

How to tell the difference between a crabapple tree and flowering cherry?

I am having trouble telling the difference between crabapple and cherry trees when they are in blossom. Crabapple flowers come in colors that cherry do also, and the flowers both smell sweet and look so similar. How can I tell them apart?


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Answer by gardengallivant
Flowering crabs (Malus) have serrated leaf margins on simple, ovate to elliptical-oblong leaves arranged alternately. Never glossy. Bark in vertical cracks.
http://www.bio.brandeis.edu/fieldbio/Clapp_Hansen_Siegel/Pages/Crabapple_New.html
http://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&q=cache:U4BkVymSnEEJ:www.ag.ndsu.edu/trees/handbook/th-3-75.pdf+flowering+crabapple+malus+leaf+margin&hl=en&gl=us&pid=bl&srcid=ADGEESiT29S1YfsaGjIjfwf9jBnj-HWIN5rfmSyCB8VwHLCvO8q8O3ssOpagnAsZA3-Mq8o3cJ_6LiCjJwrl-JOJOJUjtt2s4kzn1oSz7Zq14AG4YF2ZRE6IQNh3vmTsNArfyN2vcsiM&sig=AHIEtbS2wT5RQv3l8Jyd-rA7GTo_xVwpMA
http://landscaping.suite101.com/article.cfm/flowering_crabapples___a_review


Flowering cherry (Prunus) are doubly serrated on leaf margins on a glossy lance to elliptical shaped leaf. Bark is glossy on some with horizontal lenticel markings that give a split in the bark.
http://www.english-country-garden.com/trees/japanese-cherry.htm
http://www.google.com/images?hl=en&client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&q=flowering+cherry+prunus++bark+image&um=1&ie=UTF-8&source=univ&ei=tpvQS4v2M4vOsQOms_HRDw&sa=X&oi=image_result_group&ct=title&resnum=1&ved=0CBkQsAQwAA
http://www.buzzle.com/articles/types-of-flowering-cherry-trees.html

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