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Chinese Bayberry Growing Guide: Planting, Care & Harvest

An evergreen fruit tree with juicy dark red early-summer berries; female trees need a male nearby to fruit well.

Chinese Bayberry

Morella rubra

Growing calendar

Typical timing for central Japan (Kanto region). Shift it for your own climate, and record your actual dates.

PlantGrowingHarvest

Guides

Pests and diseases (3)

Problems recorded for this plant, most serious first.

Aphids

CommonPest

Small green or black insects cluster on shoot tips and leaf undersides, crinkling the leaves and stopping growth. The honeydew they excrete supports sooty mold that blackens the foliage.

Scale Insects

CommonPest

Small white or brown shell-like insects dot the shoots and leaves. The plant loses vigor and honeydew-fed sooty mold blackens the shoots and foliage.

Sooty Mold

CommonDisease

A thin black sooty mold spreads over the upper leaf surface, shoots and fruit. It does not invade the tissue itself, but it blocks photosynthesis and badly spoils appearance.

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