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A characteristic useful for identification is that the young leaves emerge downy on the underside. The fall color is variable, from orange-yellow to pinkish or reddish. [5] [6] Flower details. It has perfect flowers that are 15–25 mm (5 ⁄ 8 –1 in) in diameter, with 5 petals, emerging during budbreak in early spring. The petals are white.
Leaf scorch (also called leaf burn, leaf wilt, and sun scorch) is a browning of plant tissues, including leaf margins and tips, and yellowing or darkening of veins which may lead to eventual wilting and abscission of the leaf.
The leaves are oval to nearly circular, 2–5 centimetres (3 ⁄ 4 –2 inches) long and 1–4.5 cm (1 ⁄ 2 – 1 + 3 ⁄ 4 in) broad, on a 0.5–2 cm (1 ⁄ 4 – 3 ⁄ 4 in) leaf stem, with margins toothed mostly above the middle. [5] As with all species in the genus Amelanchier, the flowers are white, [6] with five quite separate petals and ...
Amelanchier (/ æ m ə ˈ l æ n ʃ ɪər / am-ə-LAN-sheer), [1] also known as shadbush, shadwood or shadblow, serviceberry or sarvisberry (or just sarvis), juneberry, saskatoon, sugarplum, wild-plum [2] or chuckley pear, [3] is a genus of about 20 species of deciduous-leaved shrubs and small trees in the rose family .
In spring the plant unfurls new leaves and produces star-shaped white flowers. [1] The leaves are pink when they first open, maturing to yellow-green, and turn red in autumn. [ 1 ] The plant's young berry-like pome fruits are dark red when young, but become dark purple when ripe.
Amelanchier canadensis (bilberry, [2] Canadian serviceberry, chuckle-berry, currant-tree, [3] juneberry, shad-blow serviceberry, shad-blow, shadbush, shadbush serviceberry, sugarplum, thicket serviceberry) is a species of Amelanchier native to eastern North America in Canada from Newfoundland west to southern Ontario, and in the United States from Maine south to Alabama.
Amelanchier laevis, the smooth shadbush, smooth serviceberry or Allegheny serviceberry, is a North American species of tree in the rose family Rosaceae, growing up to 9 metres (30 ft) tall. It is native to eastern Canada and the eastern United States , from Newfoundland west to Ontario , Minnesota , and Iowa , south as far as Georgia and Alabama .
Common names include mountain serviceberry, [3] mountain shadbush, [4] Bartram's serviceberry, [5] mountain juneberry, [citation needed] Bartram juneberry, [citation needed] and the oblongfruit serviceberry. [3] The leaves of A. bartramiana are either brown or green coloured, are egg-shaped and tapered at both ends with fine teeth almost to the ...