. North American trees : being descriptions and illustrations of the trees growing independently of cultivation in North America, north of Mexico and the West Indies . Trees. 40. SMALL-FRUITED THORN — Crataegus spathulata Michaux This thorn occurs in moist, rich soil of the coast region, from Virginia to northern Florida and westward to southern Arkansas and Oklahoma to Texas. It is a shrub or small tree 6 to 8 meters high, with up- right and spreading branches, forming a broad open crown; the bark is grayish brown, mi- nutely scaly; the twigs are Ught reddish brown, smooth, and occasionally p
. North American trees : being descriptions and illustrations of the trees growing independently of cultivation in North America, north of Mexico and the West Indies . Trees. 40. SMALL-FRUITED THORN — Crataegus spathulata Michaux This thorn occurs in moist, rich soil of the coast region, from Virginia to northern Florida and westward to southern Arkansas and Oklahoma to Texas. It is a shrub or small tree 6 to 8 meters high, with up- right and spreading branches, forming a broad open crown; the bark is grayish brown, mi- nutely scaly; the twigs are Ught reddish brown, smooth, and occasionally provided with straight, brown spines 3 to 4 cm. long. The leaves are spatulate to oblanceolate, i to 4 cm. long, 5 to 20 mm. wide, pointed or rounded at the apex, gradually narrowed below from about the middle into winged petioles, crenate-toothed, often 3- to s-lobed above, with 3 conspicuous lobes, hairy on the veins above when young, becoming smooth, half-leathery, dark green above, hghter beneath; leaf-stalks about I cm. long. The flowers are about 10 mm. wide, in many-flowered, smooth corymbs; fi©. 430. — Smaii-fruited Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Britton, Nathaniel Lord, 1859-1934; Shafer, John Adolph. New York : H. Holt and Co.
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