| Description | Rainbow Pillar Serviceberry (Amelanchier canadensis) is an Amelanchier with more of an upright growth form, growing into a small tree. |
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| Pronunciation | (am-e-LANG-key-er) |
| Plant Type | Trees Deciduous |
| Hardiness Zone | 4-9 |
| Sunlight | best in mostly sunny to sites with some shade, will tolerate hot sunny areas |
| Moisture | average, moist, tolerates average once established |
| Soil & Site | average, moist |
| Flowers | borne in pendulous racemes in end of April on naked stems |
| Fruit | tasty fruit (a pome similar to a apple) starts green, changes to red and than ripens to a purple color, in my yard you have to beat the birds to the fruit or else they quickly clear the tree, Robins become possessive of the fruit and will give you a hard time when picking |
| Leaves | simple and opposite, emerge as a grayish bronze color changing to green, fall color is yellows, reds and oranges |
| Stems | bark is smooth and gray |
| Dimensions | up to 25 feet tall, the ones I have observed have more of a shrubby form as opposed to the tight up right form |
| Propagation | PP 9,092 |
| Cultivar Origin | Herman Losely and Son, Perry Ohio (USA), found in a seedling batch of Amelanchier canadensis |
| Author's Notes | Dirr mentions in his book that he has seen plants with more of a shrubby form and I concur with him. I have seen shrubby forms and more upright forms. As kids we picked the fruit from these plants and they were all growing in open areas in the woods. |
| Notes & Reference | #01-Manual of Woody Landscape Plants (Michael Dirr), #144-Missouri Botanical Gardens web site (www.missouribotanicalgarden.org) |
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