BOTANY Crataegus Oxyacantha. Floribus Coccineis plenis; Europe (Plein air). Bushy shrub; was used for its qualities of thorny hedges inextricability in forming the boundary between the land. Also widely used in folk medicine for its many healing qualities. Engraved illustration of the plant lithographic L. Stroobant. Table color lithograph from the opera "L'Illustration Horticole" Ambroise Verschaffelt; edited by Charles Lemaire; Ghent; Belgium; in 1867.