Eastern Crabapple

''Malus orientalis'', the eastern crabapple or Caucasus apple, is a species in the genus ''Malus'' found in Turkey , the Transcaucasus, and Iran....hieroglyph snipped... With its relatively large yellow fruit, it has been consumed by people for millennia, with a string of halved, dried fruit being found in a royal tomb at Ur. Drying the fruit and then rehydrating by boiling cuts the tartness. ''M. orientalis'' contributed slightly to the gene pool of domesticated apples, a distant second to ''Malus sieversii''.