Scientific name: Crataegus macrosperma Ashe Common name: Bigfruit Hawthorn Family: Rosacae; Rose Origin: Native Flowering period: April- May Fruiting period: September- October Habitat: on the high mountains Illustration: USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913. Illustrated flora of the northern states and Canada. Vol. 2: 311.

Description: "A shrub or small tree 3-7 m tall , with dark gray or brownish scaly bark. Leaf-blades ovate or oval, 2.5-6 cm long, 2-5 cm wide, glabrous, acute at the apex, rounded, truncate or cordate at the base, sharply serrate and with several pairs of short, acute lobes: petioles 1-3 cm long, glabrous: corymbs simple or subsimple, 4-9 flowered: pedicles and hypanthium glabrous: sepals 3-5 mm long, serrate or entire: corolla 14-17 mm wide: stamens normally 10, the anthers purple: fruit short-oblong or obovate, 9-15 mm thick, red at maturity, the flesh soft: nutlets 3-5, 6-7 mm long, the hypostyle 5-6 mm long." - Chauncey D. Beadle, 1903.

Last updated on November 11, 2007.

References :
1. Beadle, Chauncey D. in Small, John K. Flora of the southeastern United States; being descriptions of the seed plants, ferns and fern-allies growing naturally in North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Tennessee, Alabama, Mississippi, Arkansas, Louisiana and the Indian territory and in Oklahoma and Texas east of the one-hundredth meridian. New York: 1903: 564.
2. USDA, NRCS. 2006. The PLANTS Database, 6 March 2006 (http://plants.usda.gov). National Plant Data Center, Baton Rouge, LA 70874-4490 USA.

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