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Red hawthorn

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Does anyone know anything about this hardy, flowering tree and know where i can obtain seedlings?
 
Common Name: Red Hawthorn
Scientific Name: Crataegus mollis L
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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.
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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
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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

****information found on http://www.lsadecatur.net****



PLACES TO BUY FROM
if online

no idea, check your local stores?
 
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