PHOTO DYarrow 6/12/02 Brooklyn Botanic Garden arborist Chris Roddick (left) and Landis arborist Fred Breglia under the National Champion Kansas Hawthorn

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National Champion Kansas Hawthorn Crataegus coccinioides Rose Family — Hawthorn Genus Brooklyn Botanic Garden Brooklyn, New York Circumference = 36 inches (3 feet) Height = 31 feet Average Crown Spread = 29.8 feet Total Points = 74 Nominated: 2002 by: Fred Breglia cloned: by:

The Kansas Hawthorn is a small tree, with broad, rounded, dense crown of spreading branches, large flowers, large, shiny, dark red fruit, and showy autumn foliage. On occasion, it is a thicket-forming shrub. The Latin species name is due to its resemblance to Scarlet Hawthorn (Crataegus coccinea), which has smaller flowers, and smaller fruit, with thin, dry pulp and calyx lobes not enlarged.

PHOTO DYarrow 6/12/02 Brooklyn Botanic Garden arborist Chris Roddick (left) confers with Landis arborist Fred Breglia under the National Champion Kansas Hawthorn

The Kansas Hawthorn extends west of the Mississippi River, from southern Illinois and Missouri to eastern Kansas, Oklahoma and Arkansas.

This Kansas Hawthorn is a two-stem tree growing in the oldest section of the Brooklyn Botanic Garden, near the Conservatory and Lily Ponds.