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Deciduous shrub, low tree, grows to a height of 2m – 10m, grows in temperate biomes, the crown is hemispherical to irregular
Habitus: Young branches are reddish-brown, with sharp prickly spines, 15 to 20 mm long, trunk bark is gray to gray-black, white wood with a reddish tinge is hard, firm and heavy.
Leaf: The alternate leaf blades are inverted ovate in outline, wedge-shaped at the base, with irregular 3 to 7 deeply incised lobes. The leaves on the fruiting branches have a blade 15 to 40 mm long and 10 to 30 mm wide. The lobes are entire-margined, only at the top with a few coarse teeth. The blade is shiny, dark green on the face, gray green on the back.. There are bundles of hairs in the axils of the vein.
Flower: Erect apical inflorescences with 10 to 20 flowers are on glabrous stems. The flowers, with corolla petals about 6 mm long, are up to 15 mm in diameter. The sepals are triangular and are longer than they are wide.During flowering, the flowers are characterized by a penetrating smell.
Fruit: they are elliptical to spherical pomes on short stalks, 8 to 12 mm long and 6 to 10 mm wide, have floury flesh, the fruits contain only one seed (stone) and ripen in September to October
fields, pastures, forests, thickets, shade tolerant
In medicine, production of tinctures
Sowing
(C. monogyna × C. laevigata), ‘Paul’s Scarlet
Dark brown spotting, fungal diseases scarlet hawthorn – Fusicladium pyracanthae
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