Unit description for Heat and Temperature

This cool season species is a thicket-forming shrub or small tree 3-12 meters tall with smooth brown bark, slender branches, and oblong leaves sharply and coarsely toothed along the upper margin (Elias 1980). For . Amelanchier. alnifolia, a typical ramet is comprised of long shoots and short shoots; only short shoots bear fruit. ................
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