It certainly has pretty foliage, but it will bear fruit so that it can escape cultivation and cause trouble in the wild for native plants...Read More. It probably does not come true from seed as a fern-leaf form, but as the mother species that is an invasive plant. I have a customer that has a three feet high plant in a big pot that should not get bigger and ever bear fruit and looks interesting.
With shrub honeysuckles, glossy buckthorn (Frangula alnus, Rhamnus frangula) often forms solid understories in natural forest areas of no...Read Morertheastern North America. Like the honeysuckles, it leafs out very early, shading out the native herbaceous layer.
This spiny invasive species is a listed noxious weed, invasive, or banned in five states. Birds eat the fruit and then distribute the seed far and wide through the landscape.
This species was used for hedging in the 19th century, but it went out of use as better hedging plants became available.
MN DNR states "European or common buckthorn and glossy or alder buckthorn are listed as restricted noxious weeds in Minnesota. It is ille...Read Moregal to import, sell, or transport buckthorn in Minnesota."
It certainly has pretty foliage, but it will bear fruit so that it can escape cultivation and cause trouble in the wild for native plants...Read More
With shrub honeysuckles, glossy buckthorn (Frangula alnus, Rhamnus frangula) often forms solid understories in natural forest areas of no...Read More
MN DNR states "European or common buckthorn and glossy or alder buckthorn are listed as restricted noxious weeds in Minnesota. It is ille...Read More
Great small tree for small property, Foliage fern like.