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Common Alder
Latin Name:
Alnus glutinosa
location:
Europe and western Asia
The Common Alder, scientifically known as Alnus glutinosa, is generally living in zones around Europe and western Asia. It usually looks like a deciduous tree, making it a fabulous plant! In the summer, its foliage is more or less deciduous, simple leaves and in the automn its foliage then is no fall color. The Common Alder (Alnus glutinosa) has beautiful flowers that are 2" to 4" long catkins and its fruits are more or less egg-shaped nutlet. An interesting characteristic it has is its bark, where we can find greenish brown bark on it. An interesting information to note about its culture would be that easily transplanted However, an inconvinient with the Common Alder can be that powdery mildew, alder aphids, lacebug, flea beetle, leaf miner A good way to identify a Alnus glutinosa with its stalked buds, 0.25" to 0.5" long. The Common Alder's propagation is uncommon since it performs it by seed
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