Distribution.—Virginia to Georgia, Indiana, Missouri and Mississippi.
Only one station known in Indiana; Deam's No. 12449 from Dearborn County.
A tree sometimes 8 meters (25 feet) high with spreading branches and a broad flat crown.
6. Crataegus succulénta Schrader. Long-spined Thorn. [Plate 82.] Bark gray; spines numerous, strong, 3-10 cm. (11/2-4 inches) long, chestnut-brown; leaves rhombic-ovate to obovate, 3-8 cm. (11/4-31/4 inches) long, 2.5-6 cm. (1-21/2 inches) wide, acute at the apex, broadly cuneate at the base, serrate or doubly serrate with fine teeth, often lobed towards the apex, coriaceous, dark shining green above, pubescent along the veins beneath; petioles 1-2 cm. (3/8-3/4 inch) long, slightly winged above; corymbs slightly villous, many-flowered; flowers appear in May, about 2 cm. (3/4 inch) broad; stamens 10-20, usually 10; anthers pink or occasionally yellow or white, large; styles and nutlets usually 2 or 3; calyx lobes lanceolate-acuminate, glandular-laciniate, villous; fruit ripens in September, subglobose, 5-15 mm. (1/4-2/3 inch) thick, dark red, shining, flesh thin, glutinous; nutlet with deep pits on the inner faces; calyx-lobes villous, reflexed.
CRATÆGUS COLLINA Chapman. Chapman's Hill Thorn. (× 1/2.)