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[Jeffrey Boulier <boulierinasia@yahoo.com>]

I'm very interested in hawthorns, but my knowledge is mostly theory -- I only 
have a couple at the moment and they are all still in pots. 

There are a few species of hawthorn that are commercially grown for their 
fruit. 

Crataegus azarolus (Azarole)
Crataegus pinnatifida (Chinese Hawthorn/Shan Zha)
Crataegus mexicana (Mexican Hawthorn/Tejocote)
Crategus opaca, Crataegus aestivalus, and maybe Crataegus rufula (Mayhaw)

I think there's also a southern Chinese species whose name escapes me, but is 
mentioned in Phipps'  "Hawthorns and Medlars" book.

Additionally, some taxonomists are now lumping Mespilus germanica (Medlar) 
into Crataegus. 

I would expect that of the above, only the American-origin mayhaws and 
tejocote have any significant resistance to fireblight.

Azarole is listed by OGW and pfaf as zone 6, but to be honest even that seems 
marginal to me; it's grown only in southern Europe. 




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From: Matt Demmon <mdemmon@gmail.com>
To: nafex mailing list at ibiblio <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org> 
Sent: Friday, January 11, 2013 1:53 PM
Subject: Re: [nafex] Hawthorns - best varieties

I don't remember the species names, but I noticed that One Green World had
several different groups of hawthorns for sale this time around, including
Mayhaw from the S. United States, Azarole from Italy, and a hawthorn from
China. All claimed to be hardy to z5.

-matt

On Fri, Jan 11, 2013 at 1:29 PM, Steven Covacci <filtertitle@aol.com> wrote:

>
>
> I'm interested in growing excellent types of hawthorns.
> According to Ken Fern (Plants for a Future), a European species: Crataegus
> schraderana is exceptionally delicious.  I don't know of a source for it in
> the US.  Any ideas?
> Natives: I have a seed-propgated 'Homestead' (C. x arnoldiana).  C.
> arnoldiana (including C. mollisa and C. submollis) are considered some of
> the best; perhaps for size, if not that and flavor.  C. flava is supposed
> to be good, along with C. succulenta.
> I'm getting a native Crataegus from NY - from Schlabach's Nursery known as
> 'Heart's Delight', which is supposedly very good.
> Steve NJ
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