Honey bees
Nectar value
Low
Pollen value
Low
Pollinator plant
Chinese hawthorn
Crataegus pinnatifida
Linked agroforestry plant data
Pollinator recipe
Bee value
Who this plant supports
Agroforestry database
Complete plant information
Structure
- Vegetation layer
- Fruit tree, Shrub
- Size
- S,M
- Dimensions
- 7.00 m high × 7.00 m wide
- Growth rate
- Moderate
- Lifecycle
- Perennial
- Foliage
- Deciduous
Site conditions
- USDA hardiness
- 5-9
- Moisture
- Moist, Wet
- Soil
- Sandy, Loamy, Clay
- pH
- Acid, Neutral, Alkaline
- Light
- Partial shade, Sun
Uses
- Edible parts
- Fruit, Leaves, Flowers
- Functions
- Timber, Voedselbos, Fragrant
- Edibility
- 3 out of 5
- Medicinal value
- 3 out of 5
Fruit - can be consumed raw or cooked. The orange fruit has a powdery texture, a sour taste, and a slight bitterness, but is quite pleasant when eaten raw. This fruit ripens quite late; specimens observed towards the end of October 1998 were not yet fully ripe. The fruit can be used in pies, preserves, and can also be dried for long-term storage. The fruit typically has a diameter of about 15 mm, although in some cases the diameter can reach 25 mm. A nutritional analysis is available. In the center of the fruit, there can be up to five fairly large seeds, which often stick together, making eating them reminiscent of a cherry-like fruit with a single seed.