Purplish-black sweet berries great for pies, cobblers, jellies, jams, smoothies and cakes. Berries are about the size of a lowbush blueberry, or a bit larger, and seedier. Beautiful fragrant 5-petaled white flowers are early harbingers of spring in Maine. Nice red-orange fall foliage.
An open-pollinated seedling originating near Regent, ND. Compact prolific shrub with sweet purple-magenta berries. Fruit ripens in mid-July in central Maine. Plant in well-drained fertile soil and full sun. Foliage somewhat susceptible to leaf spot or rust but this doesn’t affect fruit. Z2. Maine Grown. (1–3' shrubs)
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