Photo: Robert Flogaus-Faust — CC BY 4.0 · source
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Survives zone 2 through 6
⚠ Honestly: bitter and saponin-rich; whipped into 'Indian ice cream' — an acquired taste, poor fresh.
- Hardiness
- Zone 2 to 6
- Habit
- Shrub
- Edible part
- Sap
- Ripens
- Summer
- Mature size
- Shrub 1–2 m
- Light
- Partial to full sun (more shade-tolerant than S. argentea)
- Soil pH
- 5.5–8.5 (very wide; nitrogen-fixing)
- Environment
- Boreal
- Status
- Wild
- Years to fruit
- 3–4 yrs
- Pollination
- DIOECIOUS — needs male and female plants