| Scientific Name: | Crataegus x lavallei |
| Common Name: | Lavalle hawthorn |
| Family Name: | Rosaceae |
| Origin: | Garden origin |
| Hardiness Zone: | Zone 5: (-29 to -23 °C) |
| Plant Type: | Tree - deciduous |
| Mature Size: | 7 - 10m x 5 - 7m (height x width) |
| Habit: | Upright |
| Form: | Oval - vertical |
| Texture: | Medium |
| Landscape Uses: | Accent plant, Attract birds, Hedge row, Screening, Specimen plant, Wildlife food |
| Exposure: | Full sun |
| Soil or Media: | Well-drained |
| Leaves: | Simple, Alternate, Soft flexible, Pinnate venation, Glabrous, Lustrous, Elliptic, Obovate, Serrate |
| Flowers: | Cyme, White, May-Jun |
| Fruit: | Edible, Pome, Orange, Red, Sep-Oct, (Persistent) |
| Key ID Features: | |
| Leaves alternate, elliptic to obovate, most blades 5-10cm long x 3-4cm wide, irregularly toothed (less commonly entire and undulate), dark green then bronze red in fall; corymbs 4-9cm wide, florets white, 1.7-2.2cm wide, fragrance unpleasant, May-Jun; pomes broadly oval 10-14mm wide, ripen to orange-red in Sep-Oct. Winter ID: some twigs with thorns 2-5cm long; persistent fruit. | |