Amelanchier bartramiana
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Amelanchier bartramiana is a species of serviceberry
Serviceberry
Amelanchier , also known as shadbush, shadwood or shadblow, serviceberry or sarvisberry, wild pear, juneberry, saskatoon, sugarplum or wild-plum, and chuckley pear is a genus of about 20 species of deciduous-leaved shrubs and small trees in the Rose family .Amelanchier is native to temperate regions...

. Common names include mountain serviceberry, Bartram's serviceberry, mountain juneberry, Bartram juneberry, and the oblongfruit (oblongfruited) serviceberry.

The leaves of A. bartramiana are egg-shaped and tapered at both ends with fine teeth almost to the base. The flowers have five white petals, appearing singly or in clusters of up to four blossoms. The pome
Pome
In botany, a pome is a type of fruit produced by flowering plants in the subfamily Maloideae of the family Rosaceae.A pome is an accessory fruit composed of one or more carpels surrounded by accessory tissue...

s are red, ripening to dark purple and are pear-shaped. The fruits are edible and can be eaten raw or cooked.

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