List of hawthorn species with black fruit

Most species of Crataegus (hawthorn) have red fruit, some have yellow fruit, and a number of species can have black or purple fruit.

Eurasian species

• C. ambigua
• C. caucasica
• C. chlorosarca , Asian
• C. clarkei, Asian
• C. dzairensis
• C. ×dsungarica
• C. heterophylloides
• C. jozana
• C. karadaghensis
• C. longipes
• C. maximowiczii has fruit that are red to purple-black
• C. nigra , European
• C. pallasii
• C. pentagyna , European
• C. ×pseudazarolus has fruit that vary from orange to blackish
• C. sakranensis
• C. ×rubrinervis
• C. songarica , Asian
• C.×zangezura

North American species

• C. ambigens, series Silvicolae, eastern, fruit "greenish-yellow becoming dark purplish-red" ^[1]
• C. angulata, series Pruinosae, eastern, fruit "light yellowish green becoming dark purplish-red" ^[1]
• C. aquacervensis, western, fruit are deep red to purple
• C. atrovirens, western
• C. brachyacantha , native to the southern U.S.
• C. castlegarensis, western
• C. cupressocollina, western
• C. douglasii , Northern and Western
• C. enderbyensis, western
• C. erythropoda , western
• C. okanaganensis , western
• C. okennonii, western
• C. orbicularis, western
• C. phippsii , western
• C. purpurella, western
• C. radina, series Silvicolae, eastern, fruit "yellow-green to dark purplish-red" ^[1]
• C. rivularis , western
• C. rivuloadamensis, western
• C. saligna , western
• C. shuswapensis, western
• C. suksdorfii, western

The Kutenai called black hawthorn berries kasha (Ktunaxa: kaǂa). ^[2]

See also

• List of hawthorn species with yellow fruit

Sources

1. Palmer, E.J. (1925). Synopsis of North American Crataegi. Journal of the Arnold Arboretum. 6(1-2): 5–128.
2. "FirstVoices- Ktunaxa. Plants: food plants: words" . Retrieved 2012-07-07.

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