Hawthorn

 

My neighbor's hawthorn tree is always covered with colorful fruit all winter. My tree also produced abundant colorful fruit, or rather potentially colorful fruit, since the birds ate every single one as soon as they showed even a bit of color. Even so, I removed Vlad the Impaler, not solely because of lack of winter color, but because of getting the sharp end of the 2" thorns into my scalp on more than one occasion. When I almost got one in the eye, out he came. My neighbor has a thornless version. Maybe the birds don't like the fruit on the thornless ones for some reason.