Plant Habit: | Tree |
Water Preferences: | Mesic |
Leaves: | Deciduous |
Fruit: | Edible to birds |
Flowers: | Showy Fragrant |
Flower Time: | Spring Late spring or early summer |
Uses: | Flowering Tree |
Edible Parts: | Fruit |
Dynamic Accumulator: | K (Potassium) |
Wildlife Attractant: | Bees |
Pollinators: | Various insects |
April is here and beekeepers will be kept busy trying to keep up with their bees' need for extra room to store the bounty collected from the blossoms they visited. April also marks the start of swarm season, so beekeepers will be keeping an eye out for swarms to catch; or they'll be trying to keep them from swarming by making splits.
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