Anybody on here ever turned Hawthorn? The local city forester has offered some to me.
There are ornamental Hawthorne which tend to have lots of bark inclusions, which are great for natural edge bowls. The wild type tend to have round trunks like the one in Leo's picture. The wood does have a pinkish tint to it, at least from the pieces I have seen. It is fairly hard, but smooth grained. It does have thorns...
robo hippy
Over here Hawthorn does grow usually in full sun and it’s shape is much like an Apple tree, just like in this picture, my son has several growing on the open area of his property.An arborist friend said it is also called 'the Mother of the Oak' because the acorns could fall down in around the hawthorn trees, and the thorns would keep anything that wanted to eat them out... The wild hawthorn I have seen here are usually in a mixed forest with ash, choke cherry, oak, and a few other types. They have no bark inclusions. Makes me wonder if they grow differently in the forest than they do in a fence row... Most common fence row tree around most of the US is the Osage. They have thorns as well, at least when young...
robo hippy