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Identification Clues:
The main branches are rigid and almost horizontal.
The leaves on this small tree are alternate and simple. There are
sharply serrate except at the base, and the tip is rounded. The upper
surface of the leaves is lustrous, dark green, and the lower surface is
paler. The fruit is greenish to dull red with a slightly hazy surface.
This tree has small, spherical fruit that turn read in the fall and persist
on the tree into the winter. Although this species of hawthorne usually
has thorns on the branches, this ornamental variety is thornless.
The trunk of the mature tree will be fissured and dark brown. The
ridges are usually scaly and short, and often peel.
Distribution:
N/A
Highlights:
Very few animals find the fruit of the hawthorne
edible, but once the fruit has fallen from the tree, small rodents may
cut them open to eat the nutlets. |
