{"id":686,"date":"2011-01-07T12:00:28","date_gmt":"2011-01-07T17:00:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/?p=686"},"modified":"2012-12-10T17:29:28","modified_gmt":"2012-12-10T22:29:28","slug":"winter-king-hawthorn-a-winter-fruit-attraction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/2011\/01\/07\/winter-king-hawthorn-a-winter-fruit-attraction\/","title":{"rendered":"Winter King Hawthorn – A Winter Fruit Attraction"},"content":{"rendered":"
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bright red fruit in winter season<\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n

‘Winter King’ is an outstanding cultivar of our native green hawthorn (Crataegus viridis<\/em>)\u00a0and is at\u00a0home here in\u00a0the Southern Appalachian region (USDA zones 6 and 7).\u00a0Over the winter season\u00a0few deciduous trees present a\u00a0colorful fruiting display much better than Winter King.<\/p>\n

Winter King hawthorn\u00a0is a small landscape tree, maturing to 25-30 feet tall and wide\u00a0in twenty\u00a0years. Its\u00a0medium green glossy leaves are\u00a0small in size and\u00a0are rarely disfigured by disease and insect problems when planted in the right landscape environment.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Winter Green grows best\u00a0in a\u00a0well-drained loamy soil and in full sunlight.\u00a0Autumn foliage does not stand out, turning yellowish green before falling. A 3- year or older tree is exceptionally summer heat and drought tolerant.<\/p>\n

Winter King flowers in mid-spring, usually\u00a0right after\u00a0ornamental crabapples, which\u00a0novice gardeners\u00a0often confuse\u00a0with\u00a0hawthorns. Individual flowers are 5-petaled and\u00a0tend to be malodorous.\u00a0The silvery green\u00a0branches bear sparse numbers of one inch long thorns.<\/p>\n

Winter King\u00a0bears a bountiful annual crop of 1\/2 inch diameter green fruits which turn bright red in the fall. They\u00a0serve as\u00a0a plentiful food\u00a0source for winter-feeding birds and other wildlife.\u00a0Deer rarely\u00a0feed on the prickly branches.<\/p>\n

As the tree ages, bark on central trunk and major scaffold branches chips off in small pieces exposing\u00a0a tan to orange inner wood.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

bright red fruit in winter season ‘Winter King’ is an outstanding cultivar of our native green hawthorn (Crataegus viridis)\u00a0and is at\u00a0home here in\u00a0the Southern Appalachian region (USDA zones 6 and 7).\u00a0Over the winter season\u00a0few deciduous trees present a\u00a0colorful fruiting display much better than Winter King. Winter King hawthorn\u00a0is a small landscape tree, maturing to 25-30 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[778,674,806,857,627,791,630,7,850],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/686"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=686"}],"version-history":[{"count":24,"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/686\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4227,"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/686\/revisions\/4227"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=686"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=686"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=686"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}