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Cherry Silverberry Growing Guide: Planting, Care & Harvest

A hardy shrub with silvery leaves and tart red early-summer berries, tolerant of poor soil and needing little care.

Cherry Silverberry

Elaeagnus multiflora

Growing calendar

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

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Common problems

Start from what you can see on the plant.

Pests and diseases (15)

Problems recorded for this plant, most serious first.

Rust

Disease

Small raised orange-yellow to red-brown pustules form on both leaf surfaces, then rupture and release powdery spores. Heavy infection yellows the leaves and kills them early.

Anthracnose

Disease

Light brown to dark brown round lesions with sharp margins form on leaves and fruit, slightly sunken in the center. In wet weather salmon-pink slimy spore masses ooze out on the lesions.

Brown Rot

Disease

Blossoms brown and die, and round brown lesions on fruit expand rapidly. Grayish white powdery mold forms in concentric rings on the lesion and the fruit finally dries into a hard mummy.

Leaf Spot

Disease

Small round brown to gray-white lesions appear on the lower leaves, the centers turning gray with tiny black specks. As they multiply the leaf yellows and drops early.

Amber Felt FungusWitches' BroomRound Leaf SpotCharcoal RotPlant-parasitic NematodesGray Felt FungusDark Gray Felt FungusWhite Root RotAlgal Leaf SpotSilky BarkBrown Felt Fungus

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