Hawthorn Wood

This spoon is not a result of pruning fruit trees, nor of forest trees broken by windstorms. I've cut a hawthorn bush almost as big as a tree. It was almost dry and in the end I could use only two pieces because of insect holes. This is the first piece.

Hawthorn wood is harder and denser than most fruitwoods (just a guess because I could not find hawthorn in the wood database). But I think it is also one of the most beautiful.