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Hawthorn

Whitethorn, May Tree. Bread and Cheese Tree. Quickset, Tree of Chastity.

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White flowers in terminal corymbs during May and June.

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Doorway to the Otherworld. Held spellbound by old wells, where the veil between the worlds is thin.

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In Britain and Ireland it is said that where a hawthorn, an oak, and an ash tree grow together one may see faeries. .