There are about 30 species from moist woodland and stream banks in Europe, Asia, and North America are deciduous single or multi stem upright shrubs and small trees growing 20-30 feet tall, in this genus. There prized for their clouds of short displays of white sprays, of 5 petaled \u00bd-3\/4\u201d across, star shaped flowers that bloom from early spring to mid spring. \u00a0Flowers appear along with the simple oval leaves that have a downy underside. Leaves have finely toothed edges, which open silver or bronze and develop brilliant autumn color. \u00a0They also bear spherical or pear shaped green, or maroon, or purple fruit ripening to purple or brown or black, which are edible and attracts birds.<\/p>\n
Some species do well in acidic boggy ground or by the side of a pond. \u00a0Most prefer moist shelter sites under other trees but with ample light.<\/p>\n
This species is prone fire blight<\/i><\/em>, and variety of fungal leaf spots, Gymnosporangium rust, powdery mildew, dieback<\/i><\/em>, and cankers<\/i><\/em>\u00a0caused by many different fungi occur.<\/p>\n Amelanchier laevis \u2013 Allegheny serviceberry \u2013 Sarvis tree <\/b><\/strong>\u2013 This spreading shrubby tree grows 25\u2019 feet tall and in breadth naturally occurring Appalachian Mountains extending into Canada in sheltered slopes and in ravines. \u00a0Its egg shape 1-2\u201d long leaves first emerge bronzy purple, which are slightly downy maturing to hairless mid green. Leaves emerge along with the flowers, which are held in pendent racemes, 1 \u00bd-5\u201d long consisting of fragrant white flowers. \u00a0Flowers are followed by sweet juicy \u00bd\u201d long blue-black fruit used in pies and preserves. \u00a0Autumn color is usually red.<\/p>\n Zones 5-9<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Amelanchier \u2013 Seviceberry \u2013 Shadbush \u2013 Juneberry \u2013 Snowy Mespilus There are about 30 species from moist woodland and stream banks in Europe, Asia, and North America are deciduous single or multi stem upright shrubs and small trees growing 20-30 feet tall, in this genus. There prized for their clouds of short displays of white […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":29921,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":[],"product_cat":[52,50,18,19,51,21,55,41,28,16,31,20],"product_tag":[],"common-name":[],"toolset-meta":{"plant-product-fields":{"is-featured-product":{"type":"checkbox","raw":""},"zone":{"type":"checkboxes","raw":"","checked":[],"formatted":""},"scientific-name":{"type":"textfield","raw":""}},"toolset-woocommerce-fields":{"_download_limit":{"type":"numeric","raw":"-1"},"_virtual":{"type":"checkbox","raw":"no"},"_downloadable":{"type":"checkbox","raw":"no"},"_download_expiry":{"type":"numeric","raw":"-1"},"_download_type":{"type":"radio","raw":""},"_regular_price":{"type":"numeric","raw":""},"_sale_price":{"type":"numeric","raw":""},"_sale_price_dates_from":{"type":"date","raw":"","formatted":null},"_sale_price_dates_to":{"type":"date","raw":"","formatted":null},"_sku":{"type":"textfield","raw":"PDE-160254908"},"_manage_stock":{"type":"checkbox","raw":"no"},"_stock_status":{"type":"radio","raw":"instock"},"_stock":{"type":"numeric","raw":null},"_backorders":{"type":"radio","raw":"no"},"_sold_individually":{"type":"checkbox","raw":"no"},"_width":{"type":"numeric","raw":""},"_weight":{"type":"numeric","raw":""},"_length":{"type":"numeric","raw":""},"_purchase_note":{"type":"textarea","raw":""}}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/directory.plantdistributors.com\/plant-distributors-new-york\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product\/6247"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/directory.plantdistributors.com\/plant-distributors-new-york\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/directory.plantdistributors.com\/plant-distributors-new-york\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/product"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/directory.plantdistributors.com\/plant-distributors-new-york\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6247"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/directory.plantdistributors.com\/plant-distributors-new-york\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29921"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/directory.plantdistributors.com\/plant-distributors-new-york\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6247"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"product_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/directory.plantdistributors.com\/plant-distributors-new-york\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_cat?post=6247"},{"taxonomy":"product_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/directory.plantdistributors.com\/plant-distributors-new-york\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_tag?post=6247"},{"taxonomy":"common-name","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/directory.plantdistributors.com\/plant-distributors-new-york\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/common-name?post=6247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}