May blossom is now gracing the hawthorn trees, bushes and hedges. This arrangement of flowers in a flat-topped bunch is called a corymb. Each creamy white flower has five petals, one green stigma in the middle and fifteen pink anthers, giving that decorative finish.
This is the 'white thorn' contrasting with the Blackthorn that flowered earlier in the year.
It is also called Quickthorn. 'Quick' meaning alive as in 'the quick and the dead'. This is probably because it comes so easily from cuttings. Push a row of twigs into the ground and you soon get a living hedge.
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