plantHawthornNatureHawthorn as a plant people have named and used. May flower, hedge thorn, heart edge — one living kind, not a single symbol.Hawthorn is used in Medicine.Dioscorides’ De Materia Medica lists oxyacantha / hawthorn (ὀξυάκανθα) among astringent fruiting shrubs used in pharmacy. A named hawthorn in that handbook, not rowan as a neighboring mountain-ash and not a modern cardiac-supplement dump.from Pedanius Dioscorides · De Materia Medica, 1st century CEused in · sourced · documentedHawthorn is historically related to Bronze.In Boutell's English Heraldry, Hawthorn is placed beside Bronze as concrete shop companions.from Charles Boutell · English Heraldry, 1867historically related to · sourced · documentedsourcesDe Materia Medica · Pedanius DioscoridesDioscorides, De Materia Medica.English Heraldry · Charles BoutellCharles Boutell, English Heraldry (1867).