Symphoricarpos Albus Flowers

Hearty and rather easy to care for if you plant this shrub birds are sure to come for a feast upon the drupes.

Symphoricarpos albus flowers. Blooms in may july with white flowers. Laevigatus native to the pacific coast. Bell shaped flowers which are sought after by honeybees and the berries like glistening white marbles appear in autumn an edible fruit only when cooked as it contains toxins in the raw state. Birds and mammals consume the white berries and use the shrubs for cover and nesting sites.

It s a great addition to many types of gardens and is a showy globe shape for the landscape. Symphori means bear together carpos means fruits referring to the clustered fruits. It grows on any type of soils and is resistant to low temperatures. Albus meaning white and the common name snowberry also refers to the white fruits.

It is native to dry rocky wooded slopes banks and forests from nova scotia to british columbia south to oregon new mexico illinois and virginia. There are two varieties. In early summer a profusion of small bell shaped white to pink flowers are borne in clusters in the leaf axils. Prefer moderate watering sunny and semi shady places.

Noted for its very ornamental pure white waxy berries symphoricarpos albus snowberry is a thicket forming deciduous shrub with upright to arching branches that is amazingly adaptable and undemanding. The common snowberry symphoricarpos albus is a deciduous shrub that produces pink flowers and white fruit. Laevigatus is cultivated for planting in the garden but it can suffer from rusts and other pathogens. The flower includes two cycles of petal or sepal like structures.

North americans of its native range used the plant as a medicine and a soap and sometimes for food and the wood was good. Symphoricarpos albus is a deciduoud bush that reaches up to 2 meters. Symphoricarpos albus commonly called snowberry is a bushy rounded deciduous shrub that typically grows to 3 6 tall and as wide. It is one of two native symphoricarpos species in minnesota the other being wolfberry symphoricarpos occidentalis which has larger and more numerous stalkless flowers with widely spreading lobes revealing the long stamens and styles where snowberry has smaller short stalked flowers with lobes that are not spreading hiding the stamens and styles plus has fruit a brighter white and about twice the size of wolfberry.

The flowers are small greenish white to pink in small clusters of 5 15 together in most species solitary or in pairs in some e g. Symphoricarpos leaves are 1 5 5 cm 0 59 1 97 in long rounded entire or with one or two lobes at the base. It is a larger shrub up to 2 m 6 6 ft tall and with slightly larger fruit.