Food and Garden Garden Notes

Adkins Mystery Monday: Blooms in the Summer and Acts as a Fence

January 18, 2021 by Adkins Arboretum

Happy Mystery Monday! Last week, we ventured into the world of fungi. Those orangey brown fungi were a type of jelly fungi called amber jelly roll. It is often found on dead hardwood branches.

This week, we ask you what native tree has these massive thorns? It has beautiful blooms in the summer and some people use these trees as living fences.

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Barbara Harrison says

January 26, 2021 at 8:16 AM

I am guessing hawthorn, although I never let mine get to the tree stage. Found the article while culling unread emails (for the second time) down from 20k to 9,717.

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