HAW (Cratcegus apiomorpha, Sarg.) . 10 to 25 feet. Short- 

 trunked, pyramidal tree with many branches, ascending, or 

 shrubby, many-stemmed, spreading into clumps. Thorns 

 short, straight, slender, red-brown, becoming gray; 1 to l 

 inches long; often wanting. Bark gray, cracking into plates, 

 and showing yellow underlayer. Leaves thick, leathery, 

 shining, blue-green, pale beneath, 1^ to 2^ inches long, ovate 

 or oblong, serrate almost to base, irregularly lobed above 

 middle; petioles slender, winged at apex. Flowers May, in 

 crowded corymbs, small, white, hairy, anthers 5, pink. Fruit 

 September, in drooping clusters of 3 to 5, pea-sized, red-purple, 

 obovate, with thin flesh, juicy, acid; calyx lobes spreading, 

 soon falling; nutlets 3 to 5, with low ridge on back. Dist.: 

 Borders of dry woodlands near Chicago. 



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