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Hawthorn

Crataegus fontanesiana

Also called Hawthorns, Haw, Haws, Hybrid Cockspur Thorn, Thornapple

Family
Rosaceae (Rose family)

About

J.B. Phipps has shown that Crataegus fontanesiana are "somewhat narrow-leaved forms of C. calpodendron". The name was mis-applied for much of the 19th and 20th centuries to some forms of C. crus-galli.

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