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Scientific Name: | Elaeagnus pungens |
Common Name: | thorny elaeagnus, silverthorn |
Family Name: | Elaeagnaceae |
Origin: | S.E. Asia / Japan / China |
Hardiness Zone: | Zone 7: (-18 to -12 °C) |
Plant Type: | Broadleaf evergreen |
Mature Size: | 3 - 5m x 4 - 5m (height x width) |
Habit: | Arching, Dense, Spreading, Upright |
Form: | Mounded, Oval - horizontal |
Texture: | Medium |
Landscape Uses: | Espalier, Group or mass planting, Reclamation, Screening |
Exposure: | Full sun, Part sun/part shade |
Soil or Media: | |
Leaves: | Simple, Alternate, Leathery, Pinnate venation, Lustrous, Elliptic, Undulate (wavy) |
Flowers: | Flowers clustered, White, Sep-Oct |
Fruit: | Achene, Drupe, Edible, (Accessory tissue), Red |
Key ID Features: | |
Leaves alternate, most elliptic, 8-10cm long x 4-5cm wide; flowers 5-8mm wide, 4 petal-like sepals, white with brown spots; weak thorns on older stems to 2cm long; variegated cultivars mostly with green margins (unlike E. x ebbingei 'Gilt Edge'). |