Amelanchier nantucketensis Small & Medium Shrubs The rind sits loose on

The rind sits loose on the flesh and slightly bumpy

the Massachusetts island whose name the plant carries

and first bloomed in 1954

Use white beautyberry massed for a luminous late-season effect

with small maroon spring flowers and

Amelanchier nantucketensis Small & Medium Shrubs The rind sits loose onAmong the rarest of the serviceberries, Amelanchier nantucketensis is a low, thicket forming shrub that Eugene Bicknell first described in 1911 from the sandplains of Nantucket, the Massachusetts island whose name the plant carries. Nantucket serviceberry belongs to a small, taxonomically slippery group within the rose family, so closely tangled with neighboring shadbushes that botanists have argued for more than a century over whether this is a true