| Description | Snow Cloud Serviceberry (Amelancheir laevis) is a broad upright Serviceberry loaded with white flowers followed by edible blueberry-like fruit. |
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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 wide petal, 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 | green, fall scarlet or coppery orange |
| Stems | smooth bark, gray |
| Dimensions | 25 by 15 feet (HS), upright |
| Cultivar Origin | Released in 1990 by Princeton Nursery of New Jersey (USA). |
| Misc Facts | The species plant has a few nick names. 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. |
| Author's Notes | As kids we picked the fruit from the Amelanchier growing wild in Wisconsin and they were all growing in open areas in the woods . |
| Notes & Reference | #93-North American Landscape Trees (Arthur Lee Jacobson) |
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