Aronia arbutifolia

• BOTANICAL NAME: Aronia arbutifolia
• PRONUNCIATION: a-RON-ia ar-but-i-FOL-ia
• COMMON NAME: Red Chokeberry
• FAMILY: Rosaceae
• NATIVITY: East Coast, west to Texas
• GROWTH HABIT: winter habit, upright, multi-stemmed shrub
• SIZE: 6 - 10'.
• HARDINESS: Zone 4 - 9.
• CULTURE: well drained soils, prefers full sun but can tolerate some shade
• LANDSCAPE USE: A bird-attracting shrub used as border, massing, and in groups. Also good for fall/ winter colors of bright red berries.
• FOLIAGE: Alternate, simple, elliptic to oblong or obovate, toothed margins crimson red fall color
• BUDS: Imbricate, usually 5 scaled, green tinged red, often completely red, glaborous
• BARK: brown
• FLOWER: white or slightly reddish, about 1/3" in diameter
• FRUIT: Pome, rounded, and red. Great for fall color
• PROPAGATION: cuttings/ seeds
• PESTS: none serious
• CULTIVARS: 'Brilliant', 'Erecta', 'Professor Ed'