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

• List of hawthorn species with yellow fruit

References

1. ^ ^{a b} 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.