Shrub or small tree to about 7 m tall. Young shoots downy. Leaves elliptic-oblong, to about 7 cm long, downy below, saw-toothed, occasionally 2-lobed at the base. Flowers 4-5 cm wide, profuse, deep pink, fading with age, sometimes semi-double; spring. Fruit to about 2.5 cm wide, yellow, calyx persistent.
Source: (2002). Rosaceae. In: . Horticultural Flora of South-eastern Australia. Volume 3. Flowering plants. Dicotyledons. Part 2. The identification of garden and cultivated plants. University of New South Wales Press.
, Rivers Crabapple, has extremely large, double, pink, fragrant flowers and yellow fruits. Int. by nurseryman, Thomas Rivers, in 1872.