30+ Vaccinium Ovatum Scarlet Ovation

As a natural or trimmed hedge hedgerow or in a thicket as wildlife habitat it makes a choice plant for the garden. Vaccinium ovatum scarlet ovation a compact selection of our native evergreen huckleberry which has consistently redder new growth as well.

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Vaccinium ovatum scarlet ovation

Its new foliage is consistently more scarlet in color and will stay to around a dense 3 high. The leaves are elliptical and somewhat larger than those of the vaccinium ovatum spaced much further apart along the stem. Black huckleberry is a fairly common under story plant in northwest coniferous forests.

Plant database entry for evergreen huckleberry vaccinium ovatum scarlet ovation with one image and 30 data details. Leaves are perennial alternately arranged distinctly 2 ranked simple. Vaccinium ovatum scarlet ovation scientific name.

Late spring early summer flowers yield a fine crop of culinary worthy black huckleberries in the fall. Expect this to make dense growth to just 3 feet tall and be a chubby little character looking dapper with red new leaves maturing to green small whi. Developed in british columbia it features several neat tricks.

An upright evergreen broad leaved shrub that typically grows 2 3 tall in the sun but up to 10 in height if grown in full shade. It even grows well in a container. Flowers are creamy to yellow pink bells that emerge from the leaf axis followed by larger purplish tasty berries.

Cross pollination is not required a single blueberry shrub will produce fruit. The scarlet ovation huckleberry is a new form of blueberry selected for its rich red new growth and compact habit. Vaccinium ovatum can grow in either sun or shade and is tolerant of salt spray.

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