Amelanchier humilis
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Amelanchier humilis, commonly known as the low shadbush, is a species of serviceberry
. The plant is a shrub. The fruit, which is a pome
, is edible and can be eaten raw or cooked. The fruit has a sweet taste, with slight apple flavor. The leaves are oval or broad shaped.
Serviceberry
Amelanchier , also known as shadbush, shadwood or shadblow, serviceberry or sarvisberry, wild pear, juneberry, saskatoon, sugarplum or wild-plum, and chuckley pear is a genus of about 20 species of deciduous-leaved shrubs and small trees in the Rose family .Amelanchier is native to temperate regions...
. The plant is a shrub. The fruit, which is a pome
Pome
In botany, a pome is a type of fruit produced by flowering plants in the subfamily Maloideae of the family Rosaceae.A pome is an accessory fruit composed of one or more carpels surrounded by accessory tissue...
, is edible and can be eaten raw or cooked. The fruit has a sweet taste, with slight apple flavor. The leaves are oval or broad shaped.