Hawthorn blossoms

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Hawthorn blossoms (sanzashi no hana)

***** Location: Japan
***** Season: Late Spring
***** Category: Plant

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Explanation

hawthorn blossoms 山楂子の花 (さんざしのはな)
sanzashi no hana
meifurawaa メイフラワー may flower, mayflower



A tree that gets about 2 meters high. In late april toward may, it has white flowers with five petals in bunches of five or six. They are similar to plum blossoms. It used to be part of the Chinese medical plants, but now it is only planted for its blossoms.
Its western cousin, the mayflower, has also red blossoms.

The flower word for this is HOPE.

Its fruit are dried and eaten or made to juice.

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Hawthorn (Crataegus)
is a large genus of shrubs and trees in the rose family, Rosaceae, native to temperate regions of the Northern Hemisphere in Europe, Asia and North America. The name hawthorn was originally applied to the species native to northern Europe, especially the Common Hawthorn C. monogyna, and the unmodified name is often so used in Britain and Ireland. However the name is now also applied to the entire genus, and also to the related Asian genus Rhaphiolepis.
Culinary use
The fruits of the species Crataegus pinnatifida (Chinese Hawthorn) are tart, bright red, and resemble small crabapple fruits. They are used to make many kinds of Chinese snacks, including haw flakes and tanghulu (糖葫芦). The fruits, which are called shānzhā (山楂) in Chinese, are also used to produce jams, jellies, juices, alcoholic beverages, and other drinks.
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Worldwide use

England

seiyoo sanzashi セイヨウサンザシ Western hawthorn
It has small red flowers in May.
When you take a branch to a home, a person will become sick in that home, says English legend.

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Germany

Weißdorn

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Things found on the way


The Hawthorn is said to be the 'thornbushes' in this scriptural verse:

And on that day, the Lord shall whistle for the fly that is in the farthest stream of Egypt, and for the bee in the land of Assyria. And they shall come and settle in the steep ravines and in the rocky clefts, on all thornbushes, and in all pastures.
(Isaiah 7:18-19)


- Shared by Elaine Andre -
Joys of Japan, 2012


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Jodie Hawthorne haiku collection
Australia
Reference

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firethorn 常盤山査子 tokiwa-sanzashi
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Pyracanthus angustifolia Schneid
Pyracantha angustifolia
木下杢太郎画「新編百花譜百選」より

pirakansaa ピラカンサ pyracanthus


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Firethorn (Pyracantha) is a genus of thorny evergreen large shrubs in the family Rosaceae, subfamily Maloideae. They are native from southeast Europe east to southeast Asia, and are closely related to Cotoneaster, but have serrated leaf margins and numerous thorns (Cotoneaster is thornless).

The plants reach up to 6 m tall. The seven species have white flowers and either red, orange, or yellow berries (more correctly pomes). The flowers are produced during late spring and early summer; the pomes develop from late summer, and mature in late autumn.
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HAIKU

花山楂子古妻ながら夢はあり　
ka sanzashi furume nagara yume wa ari　　　

hawthorn blossoms -
although being an old wife
I still have dreams　　　

Ishida Akiko 石田あき子
Tr. Gabi Greve


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思ひ凝らせば山楂子の日の戻りくる　　　
omoi koraseba sanzashi no hi no modori-kuru
　　
手塚美佐

source : www.ami-yacon.jp

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scattering mayflowers
a startle
of dove wings

- Shared by Sandi Pray -
Joys of Japan, 2012


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Related words

***** hawthorn berries
kigo for autumn




HAIKU with hawthorn berries

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