{"id":621,"date":"2013-09-05T13:03:17","date_gmt":"2013-09-05T20:03:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/trees\/?page_id=621"},"modified":"2025-03-20T08:34:52","modified_gmt":"2025-03-20T15:34:52","slug":"hawthorns","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/trees\/hawthorns\/","title":{"rendered":"Hawthorns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hawthorns are short, thorny trees that were once used to form thick hedges between pastures in Europe. The trees bloom once or twice a year and are covered with many small flowers. Hawthorns are in the Rose family and the fruit is a &#8220;pome&#8221; that looks like an apple or a rose hip. The fruits are edible but they have a bad taste and are generally only used for making alcohol. There are roughly 200 species of hawthorns and those species have hundreds of named varieties, making identification difficult.<\/p>\n<p>Hawthorns have become a problem at Reed because birds and small mammals spread the seeds through the canyon, where the trees have become an invasive species. The college is trying to decrease the number of hawthorns as part of an ongoing canyon restoration.<\/p>\n\n<ul class=\"childPages\"><li><h2><span class=\"commonname\">Carriere Hawthorn<\/h2><span class=\"scientificNameValue\">Scientific name: Crataegus x lavallei<\/span>\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"childContent\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/trees\/files\/2013\/09\/CRVL1_lg.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-632 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/trees\/files\/2013\/09\/CRVL1_lg-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"Carriere Hawthorn\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/trees\/files\/2013\/09\/CRVL1_lg-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/trees\/files\/2013\/09\/CRVL1_lg.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/trees\/files\/2013\/09\/CRVL2_lg.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-633 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/trees\/files\/2013\/09\/CRVL2_lg-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"Carriere Hawthorn\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/trees\/files\/2013\/09\/CRVL2_lg-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/trees\/files\/2013\/09\/CRVL2_lg.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a>\r\n\r\nThis hawthorn is more erect and open branching with less twiggy growth than other hawthorns. Its long toothed leaves are dark green and leathery, about 2-4 inches long. They turn reddish-brown after the first sharp frost and hang on well into winter. In the spring the tree has white flowers that are followed by loose clusters of very large orange to red fruit that persist into winter.<br \/>\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/trees\/hawthorns\/carriere-hawthorn\/\">View tree page and map.<\/a><\/p><\/li><li><h2><span class=\"commonname\">English Hawthorn<\/h2><span class=\"scientificNameValue\">Scientific name: Crataegus laevigata<\/span>\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"childContent\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/trees\/files\/2013\/09\/CRLA1_lg.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-626 alignleft\" alt=\"English Hawthorn\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/trees\/files\/2013\/09\/CRLA1_lg-225x300.jpg\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/trees\/files\/2013\/09\/CRLA1_lg-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/trees\/files\/2013\/09\/CRLA1_lg.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/trees\/files\/2013\/09\/CRLA2_lg.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-627 alignleft\" alt=\"English Hawthorn\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/trees\/files\/2013\/09\/CRLA2_lg-225x300.jpg\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/trees\/files\/2013\/09\/CRLA2_lg-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/trees\/files\/2013\/09\/CRLA2_lg.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a>\r\n\r\nThis tree is a deciduous native to Europe and North Africa. Some cultivars of this species have red and others have white flowers. Small red fruits remain on the tree throughout the winter unless the birds get them first. This is the May tree of England that produces May flowers.<br \/>\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/trees\/hawthorns\/english-hawthorn\/\">View tree page and map.<\/a><\/p><\/li><li><h2><span class=\"commonname\">Hawthorn<\/h2><span class=\"scientificNameValue\">Scientific name: Crataegus monogyna<\/span>\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"childContent\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/trees\/files\/2013\/09\/CRMO1_lg.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-636 alignleft\" alt=\"Hawthorn\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/trees\/files\/2013\/09\/CRMO1_lg-225x300.jpg\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/trees\/files\/2013\/09\/CRMO1_lg-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/trees\/files\/2013\/09\/CRMO1_lg.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/trees\/files\/2013\/09\/CRMO2_lg.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-637 alignleft\" alt=\"Hawthorn\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/trees\/files\/2013\/09\/CRMO2_lg-225x300.jpg\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/trees\/files\/2013\/09\/CRMO2_lg-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/trees\/files\/2013\/09\/CRMO2_lg.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a>\r\n\r\nThis is the most common hawthorn used for hedges and barriers in the English countryside. It grows in a tall, narrow shape (up to 30 ft. in height) and spreads 8 ft. wide. It has small leaves and small red berries.\r\n\r\n<b>Maps:<\/b>\u00a0not shown on maps but found in the Reed canyon<br \/>\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/trees\/hawthorns\/hawthorn\/\">View tree page and map.<\/a><\/p><\/li><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hawthorns are short, thorny trees that were once used to form thick hedges between pastures in Europe. The trees bloom once or twice a year and are covered with many small flowers. 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