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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Glenn Baker says

January 18, 2021 at 3:07 PM

Hawthorn
Cecilia Nobel says

January 18, 2021 at 5:08 PM

Is it Maclura Pomifera-Osage Orange? There is a row of them growing along Bloomfield Road. Because of the curved shape of their trunks I believe they were used as the ribs of sailing ships.

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