ALICE Demonstration Chalk Grassland Database (UK)

Crataegus monogyna Jacq.

HIGHER TAXON: Rosaceae

GENUS: Crataegus L.

Crataegus monogyna Jacq. [1,10]
    Crataegus oxyacanthoides Thuillier {Doubtful Synonym} [6]
    Crataegus oxyacantha Nom.Ambig. {Synonym} [10]

PLACES: -
  Asia
    Afghanistan (U) [1]; Turkey (N) [1]
  Europe
    England (N) [1], Cambridgeshire [1], Derbyshire [1]
    Kent [1], Somerset [1], Sussex [1]; France (N) [1]
    Germany (N) [1]; Greece (N) [1]; Ireland (N) [1]
    Italy (N) [1]; Scotland (N) [1]; Spain (N) [1]
    Wales (N) [1]
  Scandinavia
    Norway (I) [1]; Sweden (N) [1]

HABITATS:
  Europe
    Chalk scrub [1], Hedges [14], Wood borders [14]

DESCRIPTORS:
  Chromosome number (2n=): 34 [1]
  Data reviewed?: 20 sept. 1989 [1]
  Flower colour: white [1,11]
  Habit: Tree [1,11], Shrub [1]
  Hairiness: Almost Hairless [1]
  Height: 2-5m [1,11], 5-10m [11]
  Leaf arrangement: alternate [1]
  Leaf shape: simple [11]
  Life form (Raunkier): Phanerophyte - micro (2-8m) [1]
  Lifespan: perennial [1]
  Month of flowering: may [1], june [1]
  Month of fruiting: june [1], july [1], august [1],
   september [1], october [1]
  Native: Native [1]
  Present in my garden: no

LITERATURE POINTERS:
  Description [1], Illustration [13]

USES:
Drink [5]; Hedging [1,6]

VERNACULAR:
Hawthorn [5,6]; May [5]; Quickthorn [5,6]

NOTES:
  Produces abundant edible berries in Autumn [1]
  Mabey quotes a recipe for a Spring Pudding. [5]
  Hybrid with C.oxyanathoides often found in quantity where the two occur.

DATA SOURCES:

1.		Clapham AR Tutin TG Warburg EF,1962
		Flora of the British Isles Second Edition

5.		Mabey R,1972
		Food for Free

6.		Mitchell,1974
		A Field Guide to Trees of Britain and Northern Europe

10.		Tutin T.G Heywood V.H etc,1968
		Flora Europaea Vol 2

11.		Polunin,O.,1976
		Trees and Bushes of Britain and Europe, Oxford.

13.		Rose,F.,1981
		The Wild Flower Key, Warne.

14.		Stace,C.A.,1991
		A New Flora of the British Isles, Cambridge.

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Crataegus monogyna Jacq.

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