Myriad Botanical Gardens - Oklahoma City, USA

Common name: Chokeberry

Family: Rosaceae (Rose Family)

Distribution: North America

IUCN Red list: Not evaluated

Hardiness: 4b

Life form: Deciduous shrub/sub-shrub

Comments: This red chokeberry cultivar is a slow-growing deciduous shrub that is perhaps most noted for its attractive glossy red berries and red fall foliage color. Clusters of white to pinkish, 5-petaled flowers appear in spring. Flowers are followed by abundant glossy red fruits which appear in dense clusters along the branches. Fruits ripen in late summer and persist throughout fall and well into winter. The berries are attractive to wildlife and also edible after soften by freezing temps. It has glossy, dark green leaves that are grayish-green beneath.