Hawthorn trees (Crataegus rosaceae) are found in the moderate northern climates of Europe, Asia and North America. They can grow between 5 and 15 meters, with a 4 to 6 meter spread. They produce small red berries, hanging on long stalks. The thorns on the branches grow up to 12 cm in length. When the flowers open, they have five white petals with slender pink filaments (thread-like structure). On the back of each flower are five green star-like sepals (similar to tiny green leaves). They prefer moist, alkaline soil in full sun or partial shade. It can live for over 400 years and are capable of producing flowers twice a year.


As a wand, Hawthorn is useful for Healing and Curses. Its ideal owner is one who is complex and intriguing. Wandmaker Gregorovitch wrote 'makes a strange, contradictory wand, as full of paradoxes as the tree that gave it birth, whose leaves and blossoms heal, and yet whose cut branches smell of death'.