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Characteristics
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Rosaceae--The Rose Family
- Origin
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Native NC
- Plant Description
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Deciduous multistemmed shrub - tree, 6 to 20 feet tall; leaves alternate, simple, elliptic to oblong, with fine teeth along the margins; flowers white, 5-parted, in an unbranched cluster March to April just before the leaves unfold; fruit a small red to purplish black, edible pome.
- Ornamental Characteristics
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Delicately beautiful in flower, small fruits ornamental, good yellow to orange fall color, interesting form in winter. A very desirable landscape plant.
- Landscape Use
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A lovely small specimen tree in the landscape with delicate flowers, fruits attractive to wildlife, and good yellow fall color.
- Horticultural Cultivars
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Many available in nurseries, they are hybrids of several species of serviceberry. 'Princess Diana' has abundant white flowers, grows as a small tree.
- Availability/Propagation
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The native species of A. canadensis will not be found in nurseries, but can be propagated from seed sown outdoors in fall. Cuttings of commercially gown hybrids root from just-firm wood, taken in late spring.
- Culture
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Transplant nursery grown hybrids, or dig from the wild (with permission), plant in moist, well drained, acidic soils in partial shade, protect from strong salty winds.
- Coastal Ecology
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Serviceberry is a large shrub to small tree which grows in moist, low locations in the maritime forest at the edges of marshes and in the swales of protected dunes. It is not tolerant of frontal dunes conditions.
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