The Dawes Arboretum

Common name: All Seasons sugar hackberry, All Seasons sugarberry

Family: Celtidaceae (hackberry family)

Distribution: Species native to s.-c. and s.e. United States, Mexico

Hardiness: USDA Zone 5

Life form: Deciduous tree

Plant Patent Info.: PP4,989; 8 March, 1983

Comments: This large deciduous native tree selection matures 60' tall and wide with a broad, rounded habit, somewhat pendulous branches. Does not drop twigs like the species. Bark is light gray with some parts smooth and others with corky ridges. Leaves are dark green in summer becoming light yellow in fall. Fruit is edible, blue-black berry ripening in September. Good specimen or shade tree. Tolerant of dry and wet sites, compacted soil and is pH adaptable.