Flower Notes:
White (Flowers are white or pinkish-white with red stamens; May)
Foliage Notes:
Green (Deep green summer foliage); Red (Outstanding scarlet fall foliage)
Fruit Notes:
Red (Bright red persisting berries)
Soil Notes:
Prefers well-drained, moist, loamy soils, but adaptable to many soil types
Diagnostic Characteristics:
Leaves are alternate, simple, elliptic, 1.5-3.5" long and 0.5-0.75" wide. Margins have black-tipped teeth. Dark glands are present along the midrib on the upper side of the leaf. Top dark green and bottom with gray tomentum. Stems also tomentose. (Aronia melanocarpa is not tomentose on its leaves or stems.) Five scaled buds are green tinged red, often completely red, and glabrous. Flowers resemble those of hawthorn.
