Crataegus azarolus var. aronia

الوصف النباتي

الأوراق

Leaves: Alternate, petiolate, 3–6 × 2–4 cm, ovate to broadly rhomboid, deeply 3–5-lobed with rounded or subacute lobes, margins serrulate; upper surface dark green and glabrous, underside paler with fine hairs along the veins.

الأزهار

Inflorescence & flowers: Terminal corymbs of 5–15 flowers. Pedicels slender, slightly pubescent. Flowers 12–18 mm in diameter; sepals triangular-lanceolate, reflexed; petals white, rounded. Stamens 15–20 with purple anthers; styles 2–3. Calyx tube broadly campanulate, persistent in fruit.

الثمار والبذور

Fruit: Globose to subglobose pomes 10–15 mm in diameter, yellow to orange-red or reddish-brown when ripe, often with conspicuous dots and crowned by persistent calyx lobes; flesh mealy and sweet, edible; each fruit containing 2–3 pyrenes.

مواسم النبات

الفنلوجية

Phenology: Flowers in April–May; fruits ripen in late summer to autumn (August–October).

الانتشار الموثق

Lebanese distribution: Common in Mount Lebanon and Anti-Lebanon — recorded by Mouterde from Broummana, Bsharré, Jezzine, Dahr el-Baïdar, and Barouk; also along valleys of the Beqaa and foothills of Jabal el-Barouk.

Native range: Algeria, Cyprus, Iran, Iraq, Italy, Kriti, Lebanon–Syria, Libya, Palestine, Sicilia, Transcaucasus, Tunisia, Turkmenistan, Türkiye, Türkiye-in-Europe (POWO).

الارتفاع الموثق

الارتفاع

700 m

لمحة نباتية

بنية النبات

Life-form & habit: Deciduous shrub or small tree up to 5–8 m tall, with a rounded crown and thorny branches; bark grey-brown, becoming fissured with age; young twigs reddish-brown, glabrous or sparsely pubescent.

الفصيلة والتصنيف

الاسم العلمي المقبول

Crataegus azarolus var. aronia

الفصيلة

وردية

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