| Description | A small tree with white flowers appearing before the leaves, followed by edible fruit. |
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| Pronunciation | (am-e-LANG-key-er) |
| Plant Type | All Plants, Trees Deciduous |
| Hardiness Zone | 4-9 |
| Sunlight | best in mostly sunny to sites with some shade, will tolerate hot sunny areas |
| Moisture | average to moist, tolerates dry once established |
| Soil & Site | moist well drained soils |
| Flowers | white, borne in pendulous racemes at the end of April before the leaves have appeared |
| Fruit | edible fruit starts green, changes to red and than ripens to a purple color, botanically called a pome, birds love this fruit |
| Leaves | simple, opposite, emerge as a grayish bronze color changing to green, excellent fall color, yellows, reds and oranges |
| Stems | smooth gray bark |
| Roots | fiborous |
| Dimensions | can reach 20-25 by 20-25 feet |
| Cultivar Origin | A cross between A. Arborea x A. laevis. |
| Misc Facts | The species plant has a few nick names. Juneberry because the fruit ripens in June, Serviceberry because it bloomed during the spring funeral services, also resembles the English fruit tree (Sorbus domestica) called service tree and Shadblow because it bloomed when the Shad ran in the spring. |
| Author's Notes | As kids we picked the fruit from the Amelanchier growing wild in Wisconsin and they were all growing in open areas in the woods . |
| Notes & Reference | #01-Manual of Woody Landscape Plants (Michael Dirr), #39-The Natural History of Trees (Donald Cultrose Pattie) |
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