| Description | Coles Select Serviceberry (Amelanchier x grandiflora) is a selection of Amelanchier with thicker glossier foliage. |
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| Pronunciation | (am-e-LANG-key-er) |
| Plant Type | All Plants, 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 dry once established |
| Soil & Site | average, moist well drained soils |
| Flowers | white, borne in pendulous racemes in end of April before the leaves have appeared |
| Fruit | edible fruit starts green, changes to red and than ripens to a purple color, botanically called a pome, birds love this fruit |
| Leaves | bronze in early spring, changes to green, orange red in fall |
| Stems | smooth gray bark |
| Dimensions | 20 by 15 feet (HS), upright |
| Propagation | seeds, cultivars from cuttings |
| Misc Facts | The species plant has a few nicknames. June berry because the fruit ripens in June, Serviceberry because it bloomed during the spring funeral services, also resembles the English fruit tree (Sorbus domestica) called service tree and Shadblow because it bloomed when the Shad ran in the spring. AKA: Coles Select Juneberry, Coles Select Apple Serviceberry |
| Notes & Reference | #01-Manual of Woody Landscape Plants (Michael Dirr), #39-The Natural History of Trees (Donald Cultrose Pattie) |
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