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Crataegus coccinioides
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Credits
Article from Bean's Trees and Shrubs Hardy in the British Isles
Recommended citation
'Crataegus coccinioides' from the website Trees and Shrubs Online (treesandshrubsonline.
Infraspecifics
Other taxa in genus
- Crataegus ambigua
- Crataegus apiifolia
- Crataegus aprica
- Crataegus azarolus
- Crataegus baroussana
- Crataegus brachyacantha
- Crataegus chlorosarca
- Crataegus chrysocarpa
- Crataegus chungtienensis
- Crataegus crus-galli
- Crataegus cuneata
- Crataegus × dippeliana
- Crataegus douglasii
- Crataegus dsungarica
- Crataegus durobrivensis
- Crataegus flabellata
- Crataegus flava
- Crataegus henryi
- Crataegus heterophylla
- Crataegus intricata
- Crataegus jozana
- Crataegus kansuensis
- Crataegus laevigata
- Crataegus × lavallei
- Crataegus macracantha
- Crataegus marshallii
- Crataegus mexicana
- Crataegus meyeri
- Crataegus mollis
- Crataegus monogyna
- Crataegus nigra
- Crataegus oliveriana
- Crataegus orientalis
- Crataegus pedicellata
- Crataegus pentagyna
- Crataegus phaenopyrum
- Crataegus pinnatifida
- Crataegus pruinosa
- Crataegus prunifolia
- Crataegus pseudoheterophylla
- Crataegus punctata
- Crataegus sanguinea
- Crataegus spathulata
- Crataegus stipulacea
- Crataegus succulenta
- Crataegus tanacetifolia
- Crataegus tomentosa
- Crataegus uniflora
- Crataegus viridis
- Crataegus wattiana
- Crataegus wilsonii
A round-headed tree to about 25 ft high, or a large shrub, with dark purple thorns 11⁄2 to 2 in. long. Leaves triangular to ovate, truncate, rounded to slightly heart-shaped at the base, 2 to 21⁄2 in. long and slightly less wide, with four to five pairs of pointed lobes, margins set with glandular teeth; they are rather thin, yellowish green, and almost glabrous even when young. Flowers 3⁄4 in. wide, four to seven together in compact clusters; sepals with glandular teeth; stamens twenty, with red anthers. Fruit roundish, flattened at both ends, 3⁄5 in. across, juicy and bright red, with five nutlets.
A native of the Mississippi basin; introduced in 1883. According to Sargent, wild trees colour orange and scarlet in the autumn.
C dilatata Sarg.
Synonyms
C. coccinioides var. dilatata (Sarg.) Eggl