Thread: The fieldfare tree
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Old 08-05-2012, 12:54 AM posted to uk.rec.gardening
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Default The fieldfare tree
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I promised Spider I would look at it in the Spring to see if we could
identify it.
It has apple-like leaves. It has buds that are flushed red and opens into
white blossom with five large petals, in bunches.
It has a bark like a hawthorn, and is similar in shape and size for a 30 yr
old hawthorn. It has fruit similar to hawthorn, but not the same.
Whatever it is the fieldfares loved it.
I would really like to know what it is.
Tina

Crataegus prunifolia? It has very distinctive inch-long straight
thorns, much longer than other hawthorns.

Janet
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