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Crataegus coccinioides Ashe

Modern name

Crataegus coccinioides Ashe

A round-headed tree to about 25 ft high, or a large shrub, with dark purple thorns 112 to 2 in. long. Leaves triangular to ovate, truncate, rounded to slightly heart-shaped at the base, 2 to 212 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 34 in. wide, four to seven together in compact clusters; sepals with glandular teeth; stamens twenty, with red anthers. Fruit roundish, flattened at both ends, 35 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. C. coccinioides var. dilatata (Sarg.) Eggl. – A tree up to 20 ft high, the leaves broadly ovate with an often rounded or cordate base, doubly toothed, glabrous when mature, 212 in. long, almost as wide. Flowers white, large and as much as 118 in. wide; stamens twenty with rose-coloured anthers; styles usually five; flower-stalks hairy. Fruits nearly globose, bright scarlet, about 34 in. wide, ripening and falling early. Native of E. Canada and the eastern United States.


Crataegus coccinioides

Crataegus coccinioides

Genus

Crataegus

Other species in the genus