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Fruiting Shrubs

arlingtontreestwrd

20 years ago

Hi all, I have made a point of planting a number of thicket-forming high-wildlife-value shrubs, e.g. sumac, elderberry, graystem dogwood, aralia spinosa, wondering if these will fruit well on their own? I mean, do clones pollinate themselves or what?

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knottyceltic
20 years ago
Some shrubs I have that are individuals and still fruit every year are:

Serviceberry
Alternate Leaf Dogwood
Highbush Cranberry
Elderberry
Silky Dogwood
Redbud

All 4 are excellent sources of food for birds.

I know I have a few other kinds of shrubs that 'do' need a male/female combo to fruit...those are my Spicebush and Winterberry. They are called "dioecious plants" b/c they need a male plant and female plant to fruit.

Sorry I can't help more but maybe if you look up the words "dioecious" and "shrubs Virginia" you might come up with some more information.

Barb
bob64
20 years ago
I have new staghorn sumac trees growing off of root fragrments that were left behind when I moved the original trees from that same spot.
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