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Steve Wolstenholme writes:
| On Mon, 15 Oct 2007 23:56:47 +0100, Sacha
| wrote:
|
| While at Marwood Hill today, we saw a small tree with unbelievably horrible
| thorns! All I remember of the name (I had nothing to write on) was that it
| ended in Americana. The thorns were shaped like hooked rose thorns but a
| great deal larger and were all up the trunk and along every branch and twig.
| I've never seen such a brute but I should think it's a security firm's dream
| plant. Does anyone know what it might be?
|
| Prunus americanum ?

Hooked thorns on the stem? I have never heard of a Prunus like that,
but don't know that plant.

The description rings a bell but, if I recall, it is a primarily
sub-tropical genus. Again, if I recall, it isn't all that fast
growing in most of the UK and tends to be an open tree rather than
forming a thick shrub.


Regards,
Nick Maclaren.