Fireberry hawthorn- Crataegus chrysocarpa

Pronunciation: krah-TEE-gus kreye-soh-kar-puh

It is a large shrub or tree that grows to twenty feet tall. Intricately branched and very thorny.

Leaves are smooth to hairy, very broad, usually with several shallow lobes, often dull, sometimes shiny.

Flowers are produced in several clusters.

Fruits are nearly rounded either bright red or yellow

https://plants.usda.gov/plantguide/pdf/pg_crch.pdf

Shrubs, 2 – 3.5 meters

Stems: twigs: new growth usually dull yellowish to greenish brown or gray-brown to light or dark tan; thorns on twigs variable, straight to slightly recurved, shiny, dark mahogany or black, slender to stout, 3 – 6 cm.

Leaves: petiole length 50% blade, usually narrowly winged distally, pubescent, glandular young, often persisting; blade yellow or purplish in very dry spots (fall), rhombic to rhombic-ovate, rhombic-obovate, or ovate to broadly elliptic, on extension shoots similar, sinuses moderately deep, margins serrate

Inflorescences: 5 – 10-flowered, compact; branches sparsely to densely villous, rarely glabrous

Flowers: 15 – 20 mm diam. sometimes glabrous; sepals triangular, margins glandular-serrate, apex subacute to obtuse

Fruits/Pomes: scarlet to deep red, only darkened to burgundy if dried and shriveled.