Thanks, that gives me a place to start looking online. Definitely looks like it, leaf shape and berry. Wiki says they are native to North America, not sure about this particular variety. Now are they useful for anything?Hawthorn?
Yea I'm thinking it's the English variety. Looks like the native one has dark berries and more rounded leaves. Found an interesting tidbit that the English variety planted with ash and oak makes the sacred trio and attracts fairies accidentally told the kids so now we're keeping them, or at least 1.They have very hard wood, & fruits are eaten by birds. The bark of black hawthorn was used to treat venereal disease, thin blood, reduce swelling and strengthen heart.
There is a European cultivar that has naturalized. Yours look more like that variety. Deeply lobed leaves (oak like), showy white blooms and clumps of scarlet fruits that stay on trees over winter.
Check out coppicing.Evidently it's one of the best fire woods out there, burns hot and long with little smoke. I think I'll whack and stack it since it's invasive, maybe plant a native one for the Faerie trio. Amazingly there's an internet forum called the 'firewood hoarders club.' I'm taking a deep dive right now.
Is Russian Olive also called Tamarisk?Since this is about trees, I'll add a free that us growing all over Montana. The Russian Olive. They are a bitch to mow around as they have long thorn's. There was a small grove of them where we were living in Silver Star. Lived there almost a year. The fruit is small and I never saw any birds of animals there. I also had two apple trees which the deer just loved to eat.
Different plants that do similar annoying things around waterways in arid areas.Is Russian Olive also called Tamarisk?
I never thought to research them trees. Just wasn't interested that much about them.Is Russian Olive also called Tamarisk?