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Xl.intricatae

Haw (C. Boyntoni, Beadl.)--Narrow or round-headed tree, 15 to 20 feet high, with tall, straight trunk, often a many-stemmed shrub. Thorns numerous, slender, straight, 1 1/2 to 2 inches long, sometimes branched when old. Bark grey, often brownish, scaly. Leaves broadly ovate, acute, irregularly lobed, finely serrate, thin, firm, yellow-green at maturity; smooth, 1 to 2 1/2 inches long; petioles stout, short, with red glands. Flowers, May, in 4 to 10-flowered corymbs, smooth, corrollas 3/4 inch across, stamens 10, anthers pale yellow; styles 3 to 5, tufted. Fruit ripe and falling in October, in erect clusters of 2 to 4; each a flattened globe, rusty reddish green, with dark dots, 1/2 inch in diameter; calyx spreading, falling off before fruit ripens; flesh thin; nutlets 3 to 5, distinctly ridged. Preferred habitat, stream borders and uplands. Distribution, Appalachian foothills, to 3,000 feet elevation; southern Virginia and southeastern Kentucky to northern Georgia and Alabama.