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Common hawthorn is a deciduous tree native in the UK and across Europe.also known as the May-tree, due to its flowering period, it is the only British plant named after the month in which it blooms.

The Hawthorn (Crataegus mongyna), Whitethorn, Haegthorn, Quickthorn or May Tree, is one of the most wild, enchanted and sacred of our native trees. Known as the "faerie tree", this beautiful, often gnarled, thorny little tree can live to a great age, and can be found growing in the wildest and harshest of spots. It grows all over Europe, Greece, North Africa and Western Asia and is rich in folklore and legend.

Tree | Flower | White | Spring | Sky | Blue | Leaf | Leaves | Hawthorn