Leaves– Alternate, simple, deciduous, serrate and lobed. 2-4 inches long. Dark green above and paler below. Twigs and Buds– Twigs are slender, grey in color, and armed with an obvious and stiff 1-inch ...

Choosing an ornamental tree is a tricky process. Most of us can only accommodate one or two choice specimens within our small plots and it's all too easy to be seduced by the promise of blossom-laden ...

Snipping a twig to be certain, and later confirming back home, I contacted Roger with the good news. The true cockspur thorn, Crataegus crus-galli, is an understorey tree of the eastern American woods ...

IN RECENT weeks we have shared a collective desire to say goodbye to a cold hard winter, whose biting eastern winds stubbornly hung on until early April. Spring’s arrival was confirmed for me by a ...

THE Hawthorn tree is a robust and long-lived genus (Crataegus). Part of the rose family, they light up our countryside boundaries with spectacular blossom and later provide food for our wildlife.

The small, fruit-bearing tree, hawthorn (Crataegus monogyna), found in East Asia, Eastern North America, and Europe, is used in Chinese, European, Japanese, and Native American traditional medicine ...