LONG-SPINE HAW (Crattegus macracantha, Koehne). 10 to 15 feet. Small tree, or spreading shrub. Thorns numer ous, slender, curved, 3 to 4 inches long, very sharp, shiny. Leaves rhomboidal to ovate, acute at both ends, saw-toothed, lobed, dark green, leathery, lustrous, with stout, red petioles.
Flowers in May, in velvety, broad clusters, stamens 10, with yellow anthers. Fruit in September, soon falling; globular, pea-size, crimson, dry. Dist.: Montreal through New Eng land, and south to eastern Pennsylvania; west to Illinois and Haw with longest thorns.