Black Chokeberry

Description

Aronia melanocarpa

Description:

A compact shrub with glossy dark green leaves, showy pinkish-white flowers, glossy black berries, and red and purple fall colors; a great choice for massing or grouping, deserving of much greater use in the landscape.

Ornamental Features:

Black Chokeberry features showy panicles of shell pink flowers with white overtones and brick red anthers at the ends of the branches in mid spring. It features an abundance of magnificent black berries from late summer to late winter. It has forest green deciduous foliage. The glossy oval leaves turn an outstanding dark red in the fall.

Landscape Attributes:

Black Chokeberry is a multi-stemmed deciduous shrub with an upright spreading habit of growth. Its average texture blends into the landscape, but can be balanced by one or two finer or coarser trees or shrubs for an effective composition.

This shrub will require occasional maintenance and upkeep, and is best pruned in late winter once the threat of extreme cold has passed. Native to New England.

Size: 5 ft h x 5 ft w
Color: Pink/white flowers, green foliage
Zone: 3a
Light Exposure: full sun

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