Ohio Pioneer Dotted Hawthorn

Description

Plants to 25' in height; this thornless hawthorn hybrid was discovered at the Ohio Agricultural Research & Development Center at Wooster, Ohio. Large clusters of white flowers are produced in abundance, followed by dotted, brick-red 3/4" fruits. Symmetrical, horizontally spreading growth habit (Lake Cty. 1987 Catalog). An essentailly thornless type selected from a tree at the Seacrest Aboretum, Wooster, OH, that exhibited good vigor, growth and fruiting characteristics. The tree was found growing in the Arboretum in 1962. At 10 years of age it had developed only three small thorns (DS 9).