How to grow Black Chokeberry

Aronia melanocarpa

tolerates wet or dry soils and a wide variety of conditions.

Growing Black Chokeberry from seed

Cold stratify fresh seed for three months.

Harvesting Black Chokeberry

Fresh berries are edible but are tart and bitter.1 Birds eat them.1 Jam and jelly are made from them and the sugar helps improve flavor.1 Best to harvest after they have been through at least one frost.3

How long does Black Chokeberry take to grow?

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Black Chokeberry Etymology

The fruit of this plant is very dark colored and tastes so tart and bitter you may choke if you eat one fresh.1

Other names for Black Chokeberry

Black Chokecherry, Chokeberry

Footnotes

1 Missouri Botanical Garden

2 National Center for Biotechnology Information

3 Plants For a Future


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