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Survives zone 2 through 7
⚠ Honestly: bitter and saponin-rich — an acquired taste, poor fresh.
- Hardiness
- Zone 2 to 7
- Habit
- Shrub
- Edible part
- Sap
- Ripens
- Summer
- Mature size
- Suckering shrub; container-awkward
- Light
- Full sun
- Soil pH
- 5.5–8.5 (very wide; nitrogen-fixing)
- Environment
- Plains
- Status
- Both wild and cultivated
- Years to fruit
- 2–4 yrs
- Pollination
- DIOECIOUS — needs male and female plants