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Variety of Ebbinge's silverberry · Elaeagnus x ebbingei

Evergreen silverberry with gold-margined leaves.

Profile

Pollination: self-sterile – needs a pollinator variety

Flowering & harvest

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Flowering
Fruit harvest

Given in thirds of a month (early / mid / late) for the northern hemisphere in a temperate climate; altitude and season shift them.

Description

Growth

Vigorous evergreen shrub with leathery, gold-margined leaves; small, cream-white, strongly fragrant flowers in autumn. Valued mainly as an ornamental and hedging plant.

Site, soil, hardiness and growth follow the species Ebbinge's silverberry unless the variety states otherwise. Will it grow where you live? → Check your site on the species page

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