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ARBUTUS unedo

Description

‘Strawberry tree’. An evergreen tree or shrub with deep-green foliage. Its bark is rough and reddish-brown. It produces inward-turning, 5-to-10 cm panicles of creamy-white flowers, sometimes shading off into pink. Its edible, roundish, red fruit measuring about 2 cm in diameter ripen in the autumn of the following year.

Classification

Genus
Family
-10°C / -15°C USDA 7
-10°C / -15°C USDA 7
Climatic resistance medium
-5°C / -10°C USDA 8

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Flower white
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