Midland Hawthorn

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Midland Hawthorn

Crataegus laevigata, known as the midland hawthorn, woodland hawthorn or mayflower, is a species of Hawthorn

Crataegus

Hawthorn is a large genus of shrubs and trees in the rose family, Rosaceae, native to temperate regions of the Northern Hemisphere in Europe, Asia and North America....
native to western and central Europe

Europe

Europe is, conventionally, one of the world's seven continents. Comprising the westernmost peninsula of Eurasia, Europe is generally divided from Asia to its east by the water divide of the Ural Mountains, the Ural , the Caspian Sea, and by the Caucasus Mountains to the southeast....
, from Great Britain

Great Britain

Great Britain is an island lying to the northwest of Continental Europe. It is the List of islands by area, and the largest in Europe. With a population of 58.9 million people it is List of islands by population....
(where it is uncommon, and largely confined to the Midlands) and Spain

Spain

Spain or the Kingdom of Spain , is a country located in Southern Europe on the Iberian Peninsula.The Spanish constitution does not establish any official denomination of the country, even though Espa?a , Estado espa?ol and Naci?n espa?ola are used interchangeably....
east to the Czech Republic

Czech Republic

The Czech Republic , is a landlocked country in Central Europe. The country borders Poland to the northeast, Germany to the west, Austria to the south and Slovakia to the east....
and Hungary

Hungary

Hungary , officially in English the Republic of Hungary , is a landlocked country in the Carpathian Basin of Central Europe, bordered by Austria, Slovakia, Ukraine, Romania, Serbia, Croatia, and Slovenia....
.

It is a large shrub

Shrub

A shrub or bush is a horticulture rather than strictly Botany category of woody plant, distinguished from a tree by its multiple stems and lower height, usually less than 5-6 m tall....
or small tree

TREE

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growing to 8 m (rarely to 12 m) tall, with a dense crown. The leaves

Leaf

In botany, a leaf is an above-ground plant Organ specialized for photosynthesis. For this purpose, a leaf is typically flat and thin, to expose the cells containing chloroplast to light over a broad area, and to allow light to penetrate fully into the tissues....
are 2-6 cm long and 2-5 cm broad, with 2-3 shallow, forward-pointing lobes on each side of the leaf.

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Crataegus laevigata, known as the midland hawthorn, woodland hawthorn or mayflower, is a species of Hawthorn

Crataegus

Europe

Great Britain

Spain

Czech Republic

The Czech Republic , is a landlocked country in Central Europe. The country borders Poland to the northeast, Germany to the west, Austria to the south and Slovakia to the east....
and Hungary

Hungary

Shrub

TREE

Leaf

Plant sexuality

Plant sexuality covers the wide variety of sexual reproduction systems found across the plant kingdom. This article describes Morphology aspects of sexual reproduction of plants....
flower

Flower

A flower, sometimes known as a bloom or blossom, is the reproduction structure found in flowering plants . The biological function of a flower is to mediate the union of male sperm with female ovum in order to produce seeds....
s are produced in corymbs of 6-12, each flower with five white or pale pink petals and two or three styles, and are pollinated by midge

Midge

A midge is a very small, two-winged flying insect. "Midge" may also refer to:* Midge Hadley, a fictional character in the Barbie line of dolls by Mattel...
s. The fruit

Fruit

The term fruit has different meanings dependent on context, and the term is not synonymous in food preparation and biology. In botany, which is the scientific study of plants, fruits are the ripened Ovary of flowering plants....
is a dark red pome

Pome

In botany, a pome is a type of fruit produced by flowering plants in the subfamily Maloideae of the family Rosaceae.A pome is an accessory fruit composed of five or more carpels in which the exocarp forms an inconspicuous layer....
6-10 mm diameter, slightly broader than long, containing 2-3 seed

Seed

A seed is a small Plant embryogenesis plant enclosed in a covering called the seed coat, usually with some Food storage. It is the product of the ripened ovule of gymnosperm and angiosperm plants which occurs after fertilization and some growth within the mother plant....
s.

It is distinguished from the related Common Hawthorn

Common Hawthorn

Crataegus monogyna, known as Common Hawthorn, is a species of Crataegus native to Europe, northwest Africa and western Asia. Other common names include may, mayblossom, maythorn, quickthorn, whitethorn, motherdie, and haw....
C. monogyna in the leaves being only shallowly lobed, with forward-pointing lobes, and in the flowers having two or three styles, not just one. However they are inter-fertile and hybrids occur frequently; they are only entirely distinct in their more typical forms.

Taxonomy

In the past, Midland Hawthorn was widely but incorrectly known by the name Crataegus oxyacantha
Crataegus oxyacantha

The name Crataegus oxyacantha L. has now been rejected as being of uncertain application, but was previously widely used for the Crataegus species Crataegus laevigata DC....
, a name that has now been rejected as being of uncertain application. Linnaeus

Carolus Linnaeus

Carl Linnaeus was a Sweden botanist, physician, and zoologist, who laid the foundations for the modern scheme of binomial nomenclature. He is known as the father of modern alpha taxonomy, and is also considered one of the fathers of modern ecology....
introduced the name C. oxyacantha for the single species of which he was aware and it gradually became used for various species, including both the Midland and the Common Hawthorn. In 1775 the Austrian botanist Jacquin formally separated the Common Hawthorn, naming it C. monogyna, and this was confirmed in 1946 when J. E. Dandy showed that Linnaeus had actually observed and described a different plant, and this would be C. oxyacantha. However, confusion over the true identity of Crataegus oxyacantha
Crataegus oxyacantha

The name Crataegus oxyacantha L. has now been rejected as being of uncertain application, but was previously widely used for the Crataegus species Crataegus laevigata DC....
remained (Byatt, 1974), and to avoid confusion, the name C. oxyacantha was formally rejected as ambiguous (Brummitt, 1986), although the name continues to be used informally. More recently, the Portuguese botanist Franco pointed out that the Midland Hawthorn was described botanically as a separate species as long ago as 1798 by the botanist Poiret

Jean Louis Marie Poiret

Jean Louis Marie Poiret was a France Clergy, Botany and Exploration.From 1785 to 1786 he was sent by Louis XVI of France to Algeria to study the flora....
, whose name Mespilus laevigata referred to this hawthorn. To reflect this, the botanical name of Midland Hawthorn is now C. laevigata (Poir.) DC.

Midland Hawthorn

Taxonomy

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