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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 .
A. florida Lindl. A. pumila (Torr. & A. Gray) Nutt. ex M. Roem. Aronia alnifolia Nutt. Amelanchier alnifolia, the saskatoon berry, Pacific serviceberry, western serviceberry, western shadbush, or western juneberry, [2] is a shrub native to North America. It is a member of the rose family, and bears an edible berry-like fruit.
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.
The fruit is a pome, 7–10 mm diameter, dark purple when ripe; it is edible and sweet. Fruits become ripe in June and July [5][6] in its native range. Amelanchier canadensis is a deciduous, small tree that flowers in the early spring. Its height ranges from 6 to 20 feet (1.8–6.1 m). The leaves are subtly serrated and about to inches (38–64 ...
Flower details. It has perfect flowers that are 15–25 mm (8 –1 in) in diameter, with 5 petals, emerging during budbreak in early spring. The petals are white. Flowers are produced on pendulous racemes 3–5 cm (4 –2 in) long with 4–10 flowers on each raceme. The flowers are pollinated by bees.
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Taxonomy. This form is a natural hybrid of A. arborea × A. laevis. [3] (. A. laevis and either A. arborea or A. canadensis); therefore under the rules of botanical nomenclature, it would be known as Amelanchier × lamarckii. The Latin specific epithet honors the French naturalist Jean-Baptiste Lamarck (1744–1829). [4]
It is the only species in the monotypic genus Cormus. It is a deciduous tree growing to 15–20 m (49–66 ft) (rarely to 30 m or 98 ft) tall with a trunk up to 1 m (3 ft 3 in) diameter, though it can also be a shrub 2–3 m (6.6–9.8 ft) tall on exposed sites. The bark is brown, smooth on young trees, becoming fissured and flaky on old trees.