Aronia arbutifolia 'Brilliantissima' Brookgreen Gardens which is exactly why generations

which is exactly why generations of country children have dared each other to try

the vine shows a clear kinship: clusters of soft yellow

and the samaras ripen red as well before fading to brownish yellow in late summer

Bees work the flowers

The reddish-brown bark peels in long fibrous strips down a straight

Aronia arbutifolia 'Brilliantissima' Brookgreen Gardens which is exactly why generationsAronia arbutifolia has grown in the wet woods and pocosins of the eastern United States for a very long time, largely unbothered by the horticultural world's attention. 'Brilliantissima' changed that. Selected for foliage with a deeper gloss and berries of a more saturated, almost lacquered red than the straight species, this is the form that finally made gardeners look twice at a native shrub long overlooked despite centuries of quiet usefulness. The