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Other common names are "shadberries" (as their blossoming coincides with the shad runs in New England), "Juneberries" (because the berries usually set on in June), and "Service" or "Sarvice" berries because their blooms mean that the muddy back roads into the "coves and hollers" of Appalachia will soon be passable for circuit-riding preachers ...
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 ().
Arbutus are small trees or shrubs with red flaking bark and edible red berries. [6] Fruit development is delayed for about five months after pollination, so that flowers appear while the previous year's fruit are ripening. [6] Peak flowering for the genus is in April with peak fruiting in October. [7]
Callicarpa americana, commonly called the American beautyberry, is an open-habitat, native shrub of the Southern United States which is often grown as an ornamental in gardens and yards. American beautyberries produce large clusters of purple berries, which birds and deer eat, thus distributing the seeds.
Juice from the ripe berries is astringent, semi-sweet (moderate sugar content), sour (low pH), and contains a low level of vitamin C. [29] The berries have a tart flavor and, in addition to juice, can be baked into breads. [27] In the United States, Canada and the United Kingdom, aronia juice concentrate is used in manufactured juice blends.
Shepherdia argentea, commonly called silver buffaloberry, [3] bull berry, or thorny buffaloberry, is a species of Shepherdia in the Oleaster family.. It is native to central and western North America, from the Prairie Provinces of Canada (Alberta, Saskatchewan, Manitoba) southwards in the United States as far as Ventura County in California, as well as northern Arizona, and northwestern New ...
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The leaves are scale-like, 2 to 5 millimetres (1 ⁄ 16 to 3 ⁄ 16 inch) long, and produced on rounded (not flattened) shoots. It is a dioecious species, with separate male and female plants. The seed cones are round, 3 to 5 mm ( 1 ⁄ 8 to 3 ⁄ 16 in) long, and soft, pulpy and berry -like, green at first, maturing purple about 8 months after ...