Strawberry tree is a kind of strawberry tree, with 14 species, distributed all over Europe and North America. Most strawberry plants are small and beautiful trees with shiny and narrow leaves and reddish peeling bark.
None of them can produce particularly delicious fruits, especially if we consider that they are actually close relatives of blueberries, overshoes and cranberries. However, in warm climates around the world, strawberry trees are cut down as ornamental trees.
Evergreen small trees or large shrubs, 5~ 15 meters high, with a round crown. After peeling off the bark, the new bark is smooth and reddish brown. The trunk is often twisted, scarred, with alternate leaves, shiny leathery, long and narrow oval, 5~ 10 cm long, toothed leaves and bell-shaped flowers.
0.5 cm long, white or pink, panicle, 5 cm long, flowering from September to 65438+February, drupe, round, diameter 15 cm, orange, edible, hot in autumn the following year.
Slow growth rate, suitable for wet and well-drained soil and sunny or semi-cloudy environment, drought-resistant, saline-alkali resistant, adaptable to acidic or alkaline soil, cold tolerance limit-17℃. Adapt to the Mediterranean climate, not to the dry and hot climate.