I looked for images of buckthorn, but I didn't see any long thorns on the pictures I saw.

[raccoon]

Anyone got a picture showing the long thorns?




edited for spelling

[HappyMe]

1. All the pictures I saw

had no long thorns.

http://dnr.wi.gov/invasives/fact/buckthorn_com.htm

Hawthorn, I believe has long thorns.


Hawthorn tree pix.
http://www.google.com/search?q=hawthorn+tree+thorns&hl=en&rlz=1T4ACEW_enUS378US378&prmd=imvns&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ei=uB_7T6LeD8e60QHL8IzNBg&ved=0CFcQsAQ&biw=1366&bih=612

[raccoon]

3. A homicidal tree. Eww! nt

[HappyMe]

4. Oh hell yeah.

They are lovely trees, but it needs to be planted where you aren't going to mow or walk or have a garden.

A couple of the places we did landscaping for just had to have a couple. Of course, they wanted a nice, mulched tree ring underneath. Those thorns are very nasty. Hurts like hell, got swollen, hurt like hell.

[glinda]

2. Horrid tree. Difficult to pull out. No thorns.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

5. The stuff is evil, and it has thorns. Trust me.

The thorns are at the ends of the twigs. http://www.dnr.state.mn.us/invasives/terrestrialplants/woody/buckthorn/id.html

If you'd like, I can go out to my back yard and take a picture. One of those damn things is still lurking in my garden.

[raccoon]

6. I'd be gratified if you would. nt

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

8. Here you go:

The twig in the middle has the thorns. You can't really tell from the photo but the thorns are quite sharp. This is a small one I haven't killed yet - when they get bigger they develop longer, sharper thorns.

[kurtzapril4]

7. buckthorns do not have large thorns

Imagine the letter "Y." The thorn is in between the arms of the Y, and sometimes at the end of the twigs.

There are thornless Hawthorns. They are lovely trees. Cretaegus crusgalli var. Inermis.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

9. Oh, yes, they do. The larger specimens often have good-sized thorns.

I know because I have been stabbed by them. Buckthorn is in the Rhamnus genus, not the same as hawthorns.