''Crataegus ambigua'' is a species of thorn ( hawthorn) native to Western Asia and Eastern Europe, including

Armenia Armenia, officially the Republic of Armenia, is a landlocked country in the Armenian Highlands of West Asia. It is a part of the Caucasus region and is bordered by Turkey to the west, Georgia (country), Georgia to the north and Azerbaijan to ...

Iran Iran, officially the Islamic Republic of Iran (IRI) and also known as Persia, is a country in West Asia. It borders Iraq to the west, Turkey, Azerbaijan, and Armenia to the northwest, the Caspian Sea to the north, Turkmenistan to the nort ...

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, and

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. It grows as a shrub or tree up to about 12 m in height. The fruit is dark red to purple or black, with one or two stones (

pyrenes Pyrene is a polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon (PAH) consisting of four fused benzene rings, resulting in a flat aromatic system. The chemical formula is . This yellow-green solid is the smallest peri-fused PAH (one where the rings are fused thro ...

).Christensen, K.I. (1992). Revision of ''Crataegus'' sect. ''Crataegus'' and nothosect. ''Crataeguineae'' (Rosaceae-Maloideae) in the Old World. ''Systematic Botany Monographs''. 35: 1–199. ''Crataegus ambigua'' is closely related to ''

Crataegus songarica ''Crataegus songarica'' is a species of flowering plant in the family ''Rosaceae''. It is an Asian hawthorn with black fruit that is sometimes used medicinally. It is closely related to '' Crataegus ambigua'', a species that has red fruit. Dis ...

'', a species that has black fruit.

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