Good morning. Can anyone tell me what this tree/shrub is? I found it growing in the middle of a spirea--it has long spike-like thorns (3cm) and is about five feet tall. Thanks.
The leaves resemble black raspberry, are they long canes or is it and actual shrub, if it's a shrub it could be a type of rose.
I don't believe it is a Hawthorn. from all the sites I've seen the leaves do not resemble the ones pictured in lanarkcp's thread. take a look at these sites; http://www.2020site.org/trees/hawthorn.html, http://www.schoolsliason.org.uk/woodgate/leaves/leaves08.html http://www.oplin.org/tree/fact%20pages/hawthorne/hawthorne.html
I was thinking the sample on the right had different, downy stems from the one on the left. Now I see they look similar. The "leaf" on the right would be several of the unfolding spring leaves of a hawthorn rather than a solitary, compound leaf like a bramble makes. When some hawthorn trees bud out in spring the first leaves are bunched or rolled as in the picture, kind of like a folded table napkin.
