Zone: 3-8

Height: 2-4 m (6-16 ft)

Spread: Same

Bloom: March-April; Male-brown; Female-yellowy green

Foliage: Deciuous, narrow siver-green (olive family)

Fruit: Edible, highly nutritional & beneficial, showy; dioecious (need male and female plants for fruit)

Light: Full sun

Water: Moderate; drought tolerant when established

Soil: Prefers poor, moist, well drained sandy, gravely loam

Maintenance: Low

Use: Hedge - naturalizing, thorny, drought reistant, erosion control

Hippophae rhamnoides (Sea buckthorn))

$30.00

Sea buckthorn is incredibly valuable nutritionally and medicinally. The fruit, borne directly on the thorny stems, is difficult to collect, but worth the trouble!

Trees create a colony by suckering from spreading roots (in the process stabilizing loose soils on slopes). Tolerant to the salts of the maritime environment. Various parts of Sea buckthorn are very utilitarian for dyes, fine carpentry, fuel and charcoal.

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