Aronia

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Article from Bean's Trees and Shrubs Hardy in the British Isles

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'Aronia' from the website Trees and Shrubs Online (treesandshrubsonline.org/articles/aronia/). Accessed 2024-09-14.

Family

Rosaceae

Species in genus

Glossary

calyx: (pl. calyces) Outer whorl of the perianth. Composed of several sepals.
midrib: midveinCentral and principal vein in a leaf.
simple: (of a leaf) Unlobed or undivided.

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Credits

Article from Bean's Trees and Shrubs Hardy in the British Isles

Recommended citation
'Aronia' from the website Trees and Shrubs Online (treesandshrubsonline.org/articles/aronia/). Accessed 2024-09-14.

Autumn colour begins at Sandling Park, Kent, UK. 9th October 2010. Image Owen Johnson.

Three species of deciduous shrubs closely akin to Sorbus and natives of N. America. The flowers differ from Sorbus in always having five styles; leaves always simple and with glands on the upper side of the midrib. Calyx-lobes persisting at the top of the fruit. Fruits small, red or black. They can be propagated by cuttings or by seeds, sometimes also by division. Quite hardy, easily cultivated, and handsome.

From the Supplement (Vol.V)

The genus is discussed by James W. Hardin in ‘The Enigmatic Chokeberries’, Bull. Torr. Club, Vol. 100, pp. 178–84 (1973).

The red-fruiting Aronia arbutifolia, specimen from a plant at 'De Heide'-Kessel, Belgium, collection of Bruno Van Puijenbroeck (12 August 2018). Image © Jan De Langhe - Arboretum Wespelaar.

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