RED HAW (Cratcegus mollis, Scheele). 25 to 40 feet. 

 ftr aid-headed tree with stout branches and twigs. Bark 

 th'n, gray to brown, in scaly plates; twigs hairy, becoming 

 smooth and gray. Thorns stout, brown, 1 to 2 inches, shining. 

 Leaves thick, firm, rough, dark yellow-green, 3 to 4 inches 

 long, broadly ovate, acute, serrate, with several pointed lobes 

 above the middle; base entire; lining pale, fuzzy; petioles 

 slender. Flowers 1 inch across, with hoary, red-tipped calyx, 

 20 yellow-tipped stamens, and 4 to 5 styles with circle of white 

 fuzz around them. Fruit August, few in a cluster, drooping, 

 scarlet, downy, globular, nearly 1 inch in diameter, marked 

 with dark dots. Flesh mealy, yellow. Dist.: Bottom lands, 

 Ohio to Dakota, Nebraska, and Kansas. 



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