Various-leaved Hawthorn - Crataegus heterophylla
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Species Description
Very poorly recorded but probably scattered throughout the UK.
Stace 4:
Crataegus heterophylla Flüggé - Various-leaved Hawthorn.
Tree to 11m; spines very sparse; leaves strongly heterophyllous, narrowly oblong to elliptic, some with 3-5 forward-directed lobes, some unlobed; fruits oblong, 10-18mm, bright red, with 1 stone and style. Neophyte-naturalised; planted in parks, rarely self-sowing; naturalised in urban woodland in South East England, Britain North to County Durham, Lanarks, Midlothian; Caucasuas.
Key:
- Leaves glabrous to sparsely hairy; styles and stones 1-3
- Leaves varying from unlobed to deeply lobed on 1 tree, some narrowly oblong to oblanceolate and entire in basal 1/2