It features over 115 different varieties of species, including Japanese Flowering Crabapple, River Birch and Kentucky Coffee Tree.

It was designated an arboretum on November 9, 1998 and now contains approximate 100 types of trees, including Japanese flowering crabapple, river birch, and Kentucky coffee tree.

Malus floribunda, common name Japanese flowering crabapple, purple chokeberry, or showy crabapple, originates from Japan and East Asia.

Malus floribunda, common name Japanese flowering crabapple, purple chokeberry, or showy crabapple, originates from Japan and East Asia.

The range of the purple chokeberry is roughly that of the black chokeberry; it is found in areas (such as Michigan and Missouri) where the red chokeberry is not.

In eastern North America, there are two well-known species, named after their fruit color, red chokeberry and black chokeberry, plus a purple chokeberry whose origin is a natural hybrid of the two.

The Purple chokeberry, Aronia prunifolia (Photinia floribunda) apparently originated as a hybrid of the black and red chokeberries but might be more accurately considered a distinct species than a hybrid (see also nothospecies).

There are purple chokeberry populations which seem to be self-sustaining independent of the two parent species - including an introduced one in northern Germany where neither parent species occurs -, leading botanist Alan Weakley to consider it a full species rather than a hybrid.

Malus floribunda, common name Japanese flowering crabapple, purple chokeberry, or showy crabapple, originates from Japan and East Asia.