page_title: Crataegus orientalis
section_title: Culinary uses
hierarchical_section_title: Crataegus orientalis / Uses / Culinary uses
caption_attribution_description: Crataegus orientalis subsp. orientalis, a species of hawthorn, in Pirianda Garden, Victoria, Australia. [The plant had been cultivated and mislabelled as Crataegus tanacetifolia: see [1].]
context_page_description: Crataegus orientalis, known as oriental hawthorn, is a species of hawthorn native to the Mediterranean region, Turkey, Caucasia, Crimea, and western Iran, with fruits that are orange or various shades of red.
  This species is highly variable. Knud Ib Christensen in his monograph divides it into four subspecies:
  C. orientalis subsp. orientalis
  C. orientalis subsp. pojarkovae Byatt has orange fruit.
  C. orientalis subsp. presliana K.I.Chr.
  C. orientalis subsp. szovitsii K.I.Chr.
context_section_description: In Caucasia the fruits are either eaten raw or used to make a type of sweet bread.
caption: Flowers of C. orientalis subsp. orientalis
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