General Plant Information (Edit)
Plant Habit: Shrub
Life cycle: Perennial
Sun Requirements: Full Sun
Full Sun to Partial Shade
Water Preferences: Wet
Wet Mesic
Mesic
Dry Mesic
Dry
Minimum cold hardiness: Zone 3 -40 °C (-40 °F) to -37.2 °C (-35)
Plant Height: 6-20+ feet (2- 6+m)
Plant Spread: Usually wider than tall.. Males tend to be more upright and less spreading in habit than the females.
Leaves: Good fall color
Unusual foliage color
Evergreen
Fruit: Showy
Edible to birds
Flower Time: Late spring or early summer
Suitable Locations: Xeriscapic
Uses: Windbreak or Hedge
Provides winter interest
Erosion control
Guardian plant
Culinary Herb
Medicinal Herb
Will Naturalize
Edible Parts: Fruit
Dynamic Accumulator: Nitrogen fixer
Wildlife Attractant: Bees
Birds
Butterflies
Resistances: Drought tolerant
Salt tolerant
Propagation: Seeds: Stratify seeds: Fall sow or 90 days Cold Stratification @ 5C (41F)
Can handle transplanting
Other info: Not self-fertile.. Requires a male and female for fruit.
Propagation: Other methods: Cuttings: Stem
Cuttings: Tip
Cuttings: Root
Layering
Stolons and runners
Offsets
Pollinators: Wind
Miscellaneous: Tolerates poor soil
With thorns/spines/prickles/teeth
Dioecious

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Common names
  • Sea Berry
  • Sea Buckthorn
  • Seaberry

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Location: Primorsky Kraj, Russia
Date: 2010-09-03
Sea Berry (Hippophae rhamnoides).
Location: In the dunes, Belgian coast, De Panne.
Date: 2013-05-25
Location: In the dunes, Belgian coast, De Panne.
Date: 2013-05-25
Location: In the dunes, Belgian coast, De Panne.
Date: 2013-05-25
Location: In the dunes, Belgian coast, De Panne.
Date: 2013-05-25
Location: Belgian coast
Date: 2007-09-25
Location: belgian coast
Date: 2007-09-25
Location: In the dunes, Belgian coast, De Panne.
Date: 2013-05-25
Location: In the dunes, Belgian coast, De Panne.
Date: 2013-05-25
Location: In the dunes, Belgian coast, De Panne.
Date: 2013-05-25

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