Genus Hawthorn (Сrataegus L., Rosaceae) at Peter the Great Botanic garden
Gennadii A. Firsov, Candidate of Biological Sciences, curator of the Arboretum park
Komarov Botanical Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences, St. Petersburg, Russia, gennady_firsov@mail.ru, https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6611-5199
Lyudmila F. Yandovka, Doctor of Biological Sciences, Professor
The Herzen State Pedagogical University of Russia, St. Petersburg, Russia, yandovkaTGU@mail.ru, https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2123-7977
Aleksandra A. Kozlova, specialist in exhibition activities of the department “Nature of the region”
Murmansk Regional Museum of Local History, Murmansk, Russia, alinka.malina.95@inbox.ru, https://orcid.org/0009-0008-1351-1711
Abstract
The hawthorn (Crataegus L.) trials began at Saint Petersburg Botanical Garden of the Russian Academy of Sciences at Saint-Petersburg with C. sanguinea, which has been mentioned in the Garden’s catalogues since 1793. More than 120 species and forms of this genus have passed through the collection, and 29 taxa are represented in the modern collection. The oldest tree is C. almaatensis, planted in 1915, the plant is now about 125 years old. It also has the largest trunk diameter (48 cm). The tallest in the Garden are C. × media ‘Roseа Flore Plena’ and C. rhipidophylla — 11,0 m. The hawthorns are highly decorative and winter hardy trees and shrubs. They are of value as fruit and medicinal plants, very promising for city planting of Saint-Petersburg and its forest-park surrounding zone.
Key words
Arboriculture, living collections of Botanic gardens.
Acknowledgments: The work is carried out on the topic “History of creation, state, development potential of living plant collections of the Peter the Great Botanical Garden of the Botanical Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences”. Registration number 124020100075-2
For citation:
Firsov G. A., Yandovka L. F., Kozlova A. A. Genus Hawthorn (Сrataegus L., Rosaceae) at Peter the Great Botanic garden. Vestnik of Orenburg State Pedagogical University. Electronic Scientific Journal, 2025, no. 3 (55), pp. 46—67. DOI: https://doi.org/10.32516/2303-9922.2025.55.4.
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