Plantae > Tracheophyta > Magnoliopsida > Rosales > Rosaceae > Crataegus > Crataegus calpodendronCrataegus calpodendron (late hawthorn)Synonyms: Crataegus acanthacolonensis; Crataegus calpodendron var. calpodendron; Crataegus calpodendron var. gigantea; Crataegus calpodendron var. globosa; Crataegus calpodendron var. hispida; Crataegus calpodendron var. hispidula; Crataegus calpodendron var. microcarpa; Crataegus calpodendron var. mollicula; Crataegus calpodendron var. obesa; Crataegus chapmanii; Crataegus chapmanii var. plukenetii; Crataegus crus-galli; Crataegus crus-galli var. fontanesiana; Crataegus fontanesiana; Crataegus globosa; Crataegus hispidula; Crataegus mollicula; Crataegus obesa; Crataegus pubifolia; Crataegus structilis; Crataegus tomentosa; Crataegus tomentosa var. microcarpa; Crataegus tomentosa var. pubifolia; Crataegus tomentosa var. structilis; Halmia tomentosa var. calpodendron; Halmia tomentosa var. leucophloea; Mespilus calpodendron (homotypic); Mespilus leucophoeus; Mespilus pyrifolia; Oxyacantha calpodendron (homotypic) Crataegus calpodendron is a species of hawthorn native to much of the eastern United States and to Ontario, Canada. The common name late hawthorn refers to the flowering time, which is later than most North American hawthorns. |
| Edible [1] | May be edible. See the Plants For A Future link below for details. | | Flower Type [1] | Hermaphrodite | | Leaf Type [1] | Deciduous | | Lifespan [2] | Perennial | | Pollinators [1] | Midges | | Scent [1] | The flowers have an unpleasant smell like decaying fish, though when freshly open they also have a pleasant balsamic undertone. | | Specific Gravity [3] | 0.62 | | Structure [1] | Tree | | Usage [1] | Wood - heavy, hard, tough, close-grained. Useful for making tool handles, mallets and other small items; |  | | Height [1] | 20 feet (6 m) |
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Attributes / relations provided by ♦ 1Plants For A Future licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License♦ 2USDA Plants Database, U. S. Department of Agriculture ♦ 3Chave J, Coomes D, Jansen S, Lewis SL, Swenson NG, Zanne AE (2009) Towards a worldwide wood economics spectrum. Ecology Letters 12: 351-366.
Zanne AE, Lopez-Gonzalez G, Coomes DA, Ilic J, Jansen S, Lewis SL, Miller RB, Swenson NG, Wiemann MC, Chave J (2009) Data from: Towards a worldwide wood economics spectrum. Dryad Digital Repository. ♦ 4HOSTS - a Database of the World's Lepidopteran Hostplants Gaden S. Robinson, Phillip R. Ackery, Ian J. Kitching, George W. Beccaloni AND Luis M. Hernández |
Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0
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