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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 .
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 flower has five white petals 7.6–11 mm long and 2–4 mm broad, and 20 stamens. 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 ...
Flower details. It has perfect flowers that are 15–25 mm (5 ⁄ 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 (1 + 1 ⁄ 4 –2 in) long with 4–10 flowers on each raceme. The flowers are pollinated by bees.
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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.
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In spring the plant unfurls new leaves and produces star-shaped white flowers. [1] The leaves are pink when they first open, maturing to yellow-green, and turn red in autumn. [ 1 ] The plant's young berry-like pome fruits are dark red when young, but become dark purple when ripe.