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Plant Habit: Shrub
Tree
Life cycle: Perennial
Sun Requirements: Full Sun to Partial Shade
Water Preferences: Mesic
Minimum cold hardiness: Zone 4a -34.4 °C (-30 °F) to -31.7 °C (-25 °F)
Maximum recommended zone: Zone 9b
Plant Height: 15-25 feet
Plant Spread: 15-25 feet
Leaves: Good fall color
Deciduous
Other: Finely toothed, obovate, bluish green leaves (2-5" long) change to brilliant orange-red in autumn (hence the cultivar name).
Fruit: Showy
Edible to birds
Other: Edible berries are sweet, resembling blueberries in size and color, and are often used in jams, jellies and pies. Amelanchiers are also often commonly called Juneberries. Fruit is tasty, fresh from the plant, but the birds often get there first.
Flowers: Showy
Other: Slightly fragrant
Flower Color: White
Flower Time: Spring
Uses: Flowering Tree
Edible Parts: Fruit
Wildlife Attractant: Birds
Propagation: Seeds: Self fertile
Pollinators: Bees

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Common names
  • Apple Serviceberry
  • Serviceberry
  • Sarvisberry

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Location: Downingtown, Pennsylvania
Date: 2006-10-21
fall color of leaves
Location: Downingtown, Pennsylvania
Date: 2022-07-19
my full-grown trees in summer
Location: Downingtown, Pennsylvania
Date: 2022-07-19
one tree's crown in summer
Location: Home
Location: Home
Location: Downingtown, Pennsylvania
Date: 2022-07-19
one tree having 9 trunks
Location: Saint Paul, Minnesota
Date: 2019-06-29
Amelanchier x grandiflora "Autumn Brilliance" Apple Serviceberry,
Location: Downingtown, Pennsylvania
Date: 2017-04-05
flowers in April
Location: Dwoningtown, pennsylvania
Date: 2010-04-06
full-grown landscape tree in bloom
Location: Downingtown, Pennsylvania
Date: 2010-05-30
delicious fruit in June

Date: 2004-04-17

Date: 2004-10-27
Location: Downingtown, Pennsylvania
Date: 2010-07-26
full-grown tree in summer
Location: Kerr Park in Downingtown, Pennsylvania
Date: 2010-03-05
full-grown landscape tree in winter
Location: Downingtown, Pennsylvania
Date: 2008-11-02
full-grown landscape tree in autumn color
Uploaded by robertduval14
Location: Cedarhome, Washington
Date: 2009-10-18
Fall color
Location: Washington
Date: 2016-06-05
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Comments:
  • Posted by ILPARW (southeast Pennsylvania - Zone 6b) on Nov 15, 2017 7:48 PM concerning plant:
    I bought two about 6-8 feet high B&B Autumn Brillance Serviceberry from the garden center where I was working and planted them in the backyard in June 2002. They grew into two beautiful ornamental trees about 25 feet high and wide at the top crown here in southeast Pennsylvania now in 2022. The two full-grown Serviceberry trees with one Gray Birch, about the same size, are casting a good amount of shade below them, so that the original sunny prairie garden with forbs and grasses is now only on the west end away from the trees; only shade loving plants are below there now. This is probably the most common cultivar of the Apple Serviceberry that is a natural hybrid of the Downy Serviceberry (A. Arborea) x the Alleghany Serviceberry (A. Laevis). The former species has slightly larger, coarser leaves that have some hairiness.
  • Posted by Bonehead (Planet Earth - Zone 8b) on Jul 21, 2013 11:52 AM concerning plant:
    Hybrid of A. canadensis and A. laevis - larger blooms and less suckering habit. Can be left as a dense shrub or pruned to a small tree. Tolerates drought. Beautiful fall color.
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jhugart On May 2, 2020 Maintenance performed
Put down cardboard surrounding plant, and added mulch.
jhugart On June 3, 2019 Obtained plant
Acquired at Green Lake Nursery in Spicer, MN.
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