Alnus rubra 5gal Red Alder fragrant Self-fertile olive from northern Spain

Self-fertile olive from northern Spain

rich pink rosettes with the quintessential Old Rose fragrance: superb

Adorned with bright red hips in the fall

It has a true ground cover habit

Fragrant white flowers in early fall

Alnus rubra 5gal Red Alder fragrant Self-fertile olive from northern SpainRed Alder. Wavy, toothed, green leaves with revolute margins. Long catkins in spring. Small, brown, cone like strobiles persist through winter. Likes wet soil. Red Alder hosts a kind of bacteria called Frankia in nodules on its roots. Frankia has a symbiotic relationship with Alder: the tree receives nitrogen in the form of ammonia converted from atmospheric nitrogen by the bacteria, and the bacteria receives carbon and energy sources from the tree in