Alder buckthorn
Frangula alnus
In Dutch: Sporkehout
ShrubsCollection: Native species
Properties
- Height
- 1.5 to 5 m, sometimes taller
- Spread
- 2.5 to 4 m
- Full grown after
- 5 to 10 years
- Sun
- Full sun to partial shade
- Soil
- Moist to wet, preferably acidic
- Water
- Plenty: likes moist soil
- Maintenance
- Low: a freestanding shrub needs no pruning
- Flowers
- May to September, greenish white, inconspicuous
- For bees
- Yes: plenty of nectar and pollen, May to September
- Hay fever
- Not or weakly allergenic
- Leaves
- Drop in autumn
- Hardy
- Yes
- Native
- Yes
- Poisonous
- Mainly the berries: harmful if eaten
- Pricks or stings
- No
- Price, young
- About €1.26 to €2.86 each, 30-80 cm, bare-root
- Price, grown
- About €22.34 to €36.86 each, 100-150 cm, potted
Through the year
- Leaf
- April to October
- Flower
- May to September
- Fruit
- July to October