HAW (Cratcegus aprica, Beadl.). 15 to 20 feet. Slender- 

 trunked, spreading tree, with zigzag branchlets. Often a 

 many-stemmed shrub. Thorns straight, slender, brown, 1 

 to 1^ inches long. Bark dark gray, deeply cut between scaly 

 plates. Leaves rhomboidal or obovate, finely saw-toothed 

 and faintly lobed; 1 inch long, thick, shiny, yellow-green, 

 paler beneath; petioles winged. Flowers few, in corymbs, 

 small, on downy stems, stamens 10, anthers yellow, small; 

 styles 3 to 5. Fruit 2 to 3 in a cluster, late, \ inch in diameter, 

 flattened, dull orange-red; flesh juicy, yellow, sweet; nutlets 

 3 to 5, ridged. Dist.: Southwestern Virginia, through west- 

 ern North Carolina, eastern Tennessee, northern Georgia, 

 and Alabama; common between 1,500 and 3,000 feet altitude. 

 Strikingly beautiful in late autumn, in its purple foliage and 

 brilliant orange-red fruit clusters. 



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