Crataegus pycnoloba

Crataegus pycnoloba
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
(unranked): Angiosperms
(unranked): Eudicots
(unranked): Rosids
Order: Rosales
Family: Rosaceae
Genus: Crataegus
Series: Tanacetifoliae
K.I.Chr.
Species: C. pycnoloba
Binomial name
Crataegus pycnoloba
Boiss. & Heldr.[1]

Crataegus pycnoloba is a species of hawthorn native to the mountains of the northern and central Peloponnesus of Greece.[1] The plant is a shrub or rarely a small tree. The fruit are red or dark reddish brown when immature, but later develop a yellow background colour.[2]

See also

References

  1. 1 2 Christensen, K.I. (1992) Revision of Crataegus sect. Crataegus and nothosect. Crataeguineae (Rosaceae-Maloideae) in the Old World. The American Society of Plant Taxonomists, Ann Arbor, Michigan, U.S.A.
  2. Christensen, K.I. (2001). Crataegus pycnoloba — en endemisk Hvidtjørn fra de græske bjerge. [Crataegus pycnoloba — a Hawthorn endemic to the Greek mountains.] Dansk Dendrologisk Årsskrift. 19: 5–10.
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