Question: Thank you for helping me to learn Amelanchier and botany in general. I returned to the plant today and took …
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Question
Thank you for helping me to learn Amelanchier and botany in general. I returned to the plant today and took these pictures, with visible hairs inside the ring of sepals, it seems. The red diamonds show stems from this clump, and there are several other clumps within the range of my phone-cam from about 20 feet away, standing just within a growth of cattail along this tidal river. Do the hairs definitively identify this as A. arborea, or are there still other possibilities?
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corylus, good afternoon. A pubescent ovary summit and relatively short petals suggests this plant is no Amelanchier arborea. Given the height you mentioned, it is most likely a hybrid that could involve Amelanchier spicata. If you could get a flowering specimen next year I could give you a more positive determination. Stay in touch if that sounds like something you would like to do. Best wishes.
