Common Hawthorn
Crataegus monogyna · Rosaceae · 단자산사나무
How to spot it
Having only one style and one stone is where the species name (monogyna) comes from and is the key to identification; it is very similar to Crataegus ambigua.
Look
- Leaves
- Simple leaves 2 to 6.5 cm long, deeply cut into 3 to 7 lobes, glossy green.
- Flowers
- White flowers 8 to 15 mm across gather in umbel-like clusters, with one style.
- Fruit
- Oblong red fruit about 1 cm across, holding one stone (seed).
Where it grows
- Native to
- Native to Europe, North Africa and western Asia.
Sources
- 국립수목원 국가표준식물목록(KPNI 웹 조회)
- Oregon State University Landscape Plants
- Clement A. Miles, Christmas in Ritual and Tradition, Christian and Pagan(1912) — Project Gutenberg #19098
- BBC News Magazine 'The mystery over who attacked the Holy Thorn Tree' (Jolyon Jenkins, 2012.04.04)
- BBC Somerset 'Sprig of Holy Thorn in Glastonbury is cut for the Queen' (2010.12.08)