The Alabama Forestry Commission officially designated this week a green hawthorn ( Crataegus viridis) at Red Mountain Park an Alabama Champion Tree — the largest known living specimen of its species ...

A green hawthorn tree at Red Mountain Park has been recognized as Alabama's newest champion tree, symbolizing Birmingham's ...

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 ...

New Orleans, LA - In a rare long-term placebo-controlled study of a herbal remedy's effect on clinical end points, a commercial extract of Crataegus, also called hawthorn, failed to show any ...

What better time to celebrate one of the countryside’s unsung heroes: a tree, or shrub if you prefer, that’s so common and ubiquitous that it often gets taken for granted. Common hawthorn (Crataegus ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract The carpels in Crataegus, Hesperomeles, Mespilus, and Osteomeles appear to constitute a morphologically related group: all have bony pits, ...

Q: We were planning on using a native hawthorn as a boundary hedge around our country garden. But a friend has warned us off it, saying that there’s a disease spreading throughout Europe that’s ...

My family is Irish and according to Gaelic folklore the hawthorn is strongly associated with fairies and is often referred to ...