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Aronia arbutifolia, called the red chokeberry, [2] [3] is a North American species of shrubs in the rose family. It is native to eastern Canada and to the eastern and central United States, from eastern Texas to Nova Scotia inland to Ontario , Ohio , Kentucky , and Oklahoma .
In eastern North America, two well-known species are named after their fruit color, red chokeberry and black chokeberry, plus a purple chokeberry whose origin is a natural hybrid of the two. [11] What has been regarded as a fourth species, Aronia mitschurinii , that apparently originated in cultivation, is now treated as × Sorbaronia fallax .
A cluster of unripe pokeweed berries A cluster of ripe pokeweed berries. Plant Type: Perennial herbaceous plant which can reach a height of 3 m (10 ft) [11] but is usually 1.2 to 2 m (4 to 6 + 1 ⁄ 2 ft). The plant must be a few years old before the root grows large enough to support this size. The stem is usually red late in the season.
Colloquially, we tend to use the word “berry” for nutrient-rich, juicy, round, soft-fle But there are tons of berry species you *won’t* find on store shelves.
Chokeberry. A cultivar of another native shrub that is grown for its berries is Iroquois Black Beauty Black Chokeberry ‘Morton' (Aronia melanocarpa). Gardeners use it as a landscape plant as well.
Prunus virginiana, commonly called bitter-berry, [3] chokecherry, [3] Virginia bird cherry, [3] and western chokecherry [3] (also black chokecherry for P. virginiana var. demissa), [3] is a species of bird cherry (Prunus subgenus Padus) native to North America.
The fruit is a small pome, 4–12 mm across, bright red and berry-like, produced large quantities, maturing in the fall and often persisting well into the winter. The fruit are consumed by birds , including thrushes , waxwings and starlings ; the seeds are dispersed in their droppings.
A Phytolacca-like fossil has been described from the Upper Cretaceous (late Campanian) Cerro del Pueblo Formation, Coahuila, Mexico, it is a permineralized multiple infructescence composed of berries with six locules, each containing a single seed with a curved embryo developed in a curved ovule with pendulous placentation, a berry anatomy that ...