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))
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.
