Common Name: Red Hawthorn
Scientific Name: Crataegus mollis L
Description
Leaf: Alternate, simple broad leaf, up to 10 cm long and nearly as wide. Leaves are ovate being broadest near the base. Short-pointed at the tip, with a coarsely toothed margin occasionally with shallow lobes. The leaves are densely hairy and have a stout hairy leafstalk.
Flower: A showy flower five with white petals up to 3 cm across.
Fruit: Spherical or short oblong 20 mm in diameter. Slightly hairy with dark dots. Red when mature, fleshy but dry in drooping cluster. Juicy edible pulp with 4-5 nutlets
Twigs: The twig is moderately stout, sometimes with stout spines often thornless. Smooth or slightly hairy with white hairs when young.
Bark: The bark is brown to gray becoming deeply furrowed and thick with age.
Form: It is a small tree less than 9m. It has wide spreading crown. Trunk up to 36cm.
discussion
Uses: The wood of this tree is heavy, hard, and dense. The Latin species name also refers to the Downy Hawthorn.
Distribution: Southeastern Canada to Minnesota south to Alabama through Oklahoma.
Location:
GPS – 39:53.390N 088:55.785W
Map – 2001 E. Mound Rd. Decatur, IL 62526
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