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Hippophae rhamnoides
Also called Seaberry, Seabuckthorn, Sallowthorn, Willow Leaved Sea Buckthorn, Himalayan Berry
Sea buckthorn is a hardy, spiny, deciduous suckering shrub (sometimes a small tree) that forms colonies from root sprouts and bears tart orange berries. It is dioecious, so you need both a male and a female plant to get fruit.
Sea-buckthorn (Hippophae rhamnoides), also known as sea buckthorn, sandthorn, sallowthorn or seaberry, is a species of flowering plant in the family Elaeagnaceae, native to cold-temperate regions of Eurasia. It is a spiny deciduous shrub. The fruit has culinary uses, while its extracts, including its oil, are used in the cosmetics industry and within traditional medicine. It is also used as animal fodder, in horticulture, and for ecological purposes.
Hippophae rhamnoides is native to cold-temperate regions of Europe and Asia, between 27° and 69°N latitude and 7°W and 122°E longitude. These regions include the North Sea coasts of Great Britain, the Netherlands, and Denmark, the Baltic coasts of Finland, Poland, Latvia, and Germany, the Gulf of Bothnia in Sweden, as well as coastal areas of the United Kingdom, Norway and the Netherlands. In Asia, H. rhamnoides can be found in the northern regions of China, throughout most of the Himalayan region, including India, Nepal and Bhutan, Pakistan and Afghanistan. It is found in a variety of locations: on hills and hillsides, valleys, riverbeds, along coastal regions, on islands, in small isolated or continuous pure stands, but also in mixed stands with other shrub and tree species. H. rhamnoides has also recently been planted in countries such as Canada, the United States, Bolivia, Chile, Japan and South Korea.
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Sea buckthorn by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts and the care summary drawn from them are shared under the same licence.
The care summary was written by AI (Claude, Anthropic) from the sources on this page, with general growing knowledge where they are silent. Check before relying on it.
Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.
