Common Name:
Hawthorn
Thorn Apple
Possibly as many as 200 species of deciduous shrubs or small trees, usually with thorns. Leaves are alternate, simple, lobed (sometimes cut to the midrib or nearly so) or dentate, never entire, frequently larger on non-flowering shoots. Flowers white, usually in clusters, 20 stamens, rarely 5-10, anthers pink. Fruit a pome with 1-5 carpels, each with a stone-like seed, skin color is red, yellow, black, and rarely blue. Native to the Northern Hemisphere.
Crataegus: from the Greek kratos, strength, a reference to its wood.
Pronunciation:
kra-TEE-gus
Family:
Rosaceae