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Blackthorn

A roadside hedge in early spring, the blackthorn in flower.

A thorny hedge shrub growing with the hawthorn in the roadside hedges.

Through the year

Section titled “Through the year”

Blackthorn flowers white on bare twigs in early spring (days 1 to 9), before its leaves come. Sloes hang on it from late summer into winter.