Photo: Dave Powell, USDA Forest Service — Public domain · source
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Survives zone 2 through 6
⚠ Elder MUST BE COOKED (raw berries/leaves/stems toxic). Highbush cranberry musty when overripe — pick slightly under and cook.
- Hardiness
- Zone 2 to 6
- Habit
- Shrub
- Edible part
- Leaf, Fruit
- Ripens
- Aug–Sept
- Mature size
- Shrub 2–4 m; containerable when young
- Light
- Partial to shade (boreal understory)
- Soil pH
- 5.5–7.0
- Environment
- Boreal
- Status
- Wild
- Years to fruit
- 2–3 yrs
- Pollination
- Self-fertile but BETTER WITH A PARTNER — plant 2 cultivars