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Frangula alnus
Glossy buckthorn · Alder Buckthorn · Frangula · Glossy False Buckthorn · Ponjemiestâ
Tier 2 Difficulty: easy Water: low Light: full_sun
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Soil pH
5–6
Hardiness
Zone 3–8
Click count
1,008
Observations
5,132
Description
Source: leafsnapFrangula alnus, commonly known as alder buckthorn, glossy buckthorn, or breaking buckthorn, is a tall deciduous shrub in the family Rhamnaceae. Unlike other "buckthorns", alder buckthorn does not have thorns. It is native to Europe, northernmost Africa, and western Asia, from Ireland and Great Britain north to the 68th parallel in Scandinavia, east to central Siberia and Xinjiang in western China, and south to northern Morocco, Turkey, and the Alborz in Iran and Caucasus Mountains; in the northwest of its range (Ireland, Scotland), it is rare and scattered. It is also introduced and naturalised in eastern North America.
Care Guide
💧 Water
☀️ Light Full sun
Ideal: Full sun
🌡️ Temperature 0–32.2°C
Ideal temperature: 0–32.2°C
💨 Humidity
Humidity:
🪴 Soil 5-6
Soil pH: 5-6
🌱 Fertilizer
🪴 Pot & Repot
✂️ Pruning
🌿 Propagating
🐛 Diseases & pets
☠️ Toxicity
Characteristics
- Plant Type
- Shrub
- Life Cycle
- Perennial
- Genus
- Frangula
- Family
- Rhamnaceae
- Hardiness Zone
- 3-8
- Mature Height
- 3.05 m to 7.01 m
- Mature Spread
- 2.44 m to 3.66 m
- Leaf Color
- Green, Yellow, Red
- Leaf Type
- Deciduous
- Flower Color
- Green, Yellow
- Flower Size
- 0.25 cm to 0.51 cm
- Bloom Time
- Late spring, Early summer
- Planting Time
- Autumn, Winter, Spring, Summer
- Harvest Time
- Mid summer
- Native Area
- Turkey, Sweden, Austria, Morocco, Belarus, Iraq, Germany, Estonia, Romania, Latvia, Belgium, Moldova, Portugal, Netherlands, France, Tunisia, Bulgaria, Armenia, Poland, Greece, North Macedonia, Ukraine, Serbia, China, Lithuania, Norway, Syria, Italy, Kazakhstan, Spain, Switzerland, Denmark, Finland, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Iran, Albania, Ireland, United Kingdom, Hungary, Algeria, Azerbaijan
Tags (5)
Common Names (16)
en Glossy buckthorn
en Alder Buckthorn
en Frangula
en Glossy False Buckthorn
en Ponjemiestâ
en Breaking Buckthorn
en European Alder Buckthorn
en Butcher's Frick Tree
en La Bourdaine
en False Buckthorn
en Sangrinheira
en Fragile Alder Buckthorn
en Fragile False Buckthorn
en Alder Frangula
en Draighean Fearna
en Fragile Buckthorn