Base de datos de plantas del FNPS

Vaccinium arboreum

sparkleberry, farkleberry
  • Photo by: Paul Rebman
  • Photo by: Shirley Denton, Suncoast Chapter FNPS
  • Photo by: Shirley Denton, Suncoast Chapter FNPS

Nomenclatura

Nombre común:

sparkleberry, farkleberry

Sinónimo(s):

Especie del género:

Vaccinium arboreum

Familia:

Ericaceae

Especificaciones de la planta

Forma:

tree

Tamaño:

15-25 ft tall by 4-15 ft wide

Esperanza de vida:

Long-lived perennial

Color de la flor:

white

Color de la fruta:

black

Fenología:

Deciduous. Blooms in spring. Fruits ripen late summer. Moderately long-lived (Nelson 2003).

Destacado por:

Showy Flowers, Fall Color, Interesting Bark

Paisajismo

Usos recomendados:

A profuse bloomer. Use for natural landscapes and wildlife habitat areas. Does well under a high pine canopy.

Consideraciones:

Disponibilidad:

Native Nurseries, Seed

Propagación:

Seed and softwood cuttings.

Luz:

Part Sun

Tolerancia a la humedad:

Siempre inundado---------------------------------Extremadamente seco

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Somewhat moist, no flooding -a- Very long very dry periods

Tolerancia a inundaciones por agua salada:

Unknown

Tolerancia a la niebla salina/suelo salado:

Some tolerance to salty wind but not direct salt spray

Suelo u otro sustrato:

Sand

pH del suelo:

Acidic

Apto para cultivo en:

8A,8B,9A,9B

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Acreditado en:

Distribution
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Map coded by Melissa Fernandez-de Cespedes (Paynes Prairie Chapter)

Ecología

Fauna:

Butterflies, Caterpillars, Birds, Mammals

Larval host for striped hairstreak ( Satyrium liparops ).





Attracts many pollinators; especially valuable to native bees.

Fruit is consumed by birds and other wildlife.

Hábitats nativos:

Dry sites. Xeric hammock, dryf mesic hardwoods, may be in upper edges of floodplains, overgrown flatwoods, coastal dunes, sandhill, scrubby sandhill.

Área de distribución natural en Florida:

Comentarios:

Etnobotánica:

Fruit not particularly tasty to humans.

Comentarios generales:

FNPS Plant Print

Citas:

Deyrup, Mark; Jayanthi Edirisinghe, and Beth Norden.  2002. The diversity and floral hosts of bees at the Archbold Biological Station, Florida (Hymenoptera: Apoidea). Insecta Mundi. 544.  https://digitalcommons.unl.edu/insectamundi/544



Haehle, Robert G. and Joan Brookwell.  1999.  Native Florida Plants.  Gulf Publishing Company.  Houston, TX.



Huegel, Craig, N.  2010.  Native plant landscaping for Florida wildlife.  University Press of Florida, Gainesville, FL. (wildlife uses).



Nelson, Gil.  2003.  Florida's Best Landscape Plants. Association of Florida Native Nurseries.



Osorio, Rufino. 2001. A gardener's guide to Florida's native plants.  University Press of Florida, Gainesville, FL.



Wunderlin, R. P., B. F. Hansen, A. R. Franck, and F. B. Essig. 2021. Atlas of Florida Plants ( https://florida.plantatlas.usf.edu/ ).  Institute for Systematic Botany, University of South Florida, Tampa.

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