Taxon: Aronia ×prunifolia (Marshall) Rehder

Common names:

• purple chokeberry   (Source: Websters Dict ) – English
  
• Apfelbeere   (Source: Mansf Ency ) – German
  
• Aronia   (Source: Mansf Ency ) – German
  
• schwarze Eberesche   (Source: Mansf Ency ) – German
  
• rjabina černoplodnaja   (Source: Mansf Ency ) – Transliterated Russian
  
• slånaronia   (Source: Vara kulturvaxt namn ) – Swedish
  

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see MMPND for additional names in foreign scripts

Economic importance:

• Food additives: coloring   (fide Mansf Ency)
  
• Environmental: ornamental   (fide Dict Gard; Eur Gard F)
  
• Human food: beverage base   (fide Mansf Ency)
  
• Medicines: folklore   (fide Mansf Ency)
  

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View ethnobotanical data from Moerman's Native American Ethnobotany Database

Distributional range:

• NORTHERN AMERICA (Check conservation status in U.S. & Canada in NatureServe Explorer database)
  Eastern Canada: Canada - New Brunswick [s.e.], Nova Scotia, Quebec
  Northeastern U.S.A.: United States - Connecticut, Indiana, Maine, Massachusetts, Michigan, New Hampshire, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Vermont, West Virginia
  North-Central U.S.A.: United States - Illinois [n.], Wisconsin
  Southeastern U.S.A.: United States - Kentucky, Maryland [w.], North Carolina, Virginia

• EUROPE
  Europe

• NORTHERN AMERICA
  Southeastern U.S.A.: United States - Delaware

• ASIA-TEMPERATE
  Siberia: Russian Federation - Western Siberia [w.]
  Eastern Asia: Korea, North
• EUROPE
  Northern Europe: Sweden
  Middle Europe: Czechoslovakia; Germany
  East Europe: Latvia; Russian Federation - European part
  Southeastern Europe: Bulgaria

References:

• Aldén, B., S. Ryman & M. Hjertson. 2009. Våra kulturväxters namn - ursprung och användning. Formas, Stockholm (Handbook on Swedish cultivated and utility plants, their names and origin).
• Deam, C. C. 1940. Flora of Indiana. [not as hybrid].
• Erhardt, W. et al. 2000. Zander: Handwörterbuch der Pflanzennamen, 16. Auflage.
• Erhardt, W. et al. 2008. Der große Zander: Enzyklopädie der Pflanzennamen. [= A. ×prunifolia (C. K. Schneid.) Graebn.].
• Gleason, H. A. & A. Cronquist. 1991. Manual of vascular plants of northeastern United States and adjacent Canada, ed. 2.
• Hanelt, P., ed. 2001. Mansfeld's encyclopedia of agricultural and horticultural crops. Volumes 1-6.
• Hardin, J. W. 1973. The enigmatic chokeberries (Aronia, Rosaceae). Bull. Torrey Bot. Club 100:178–184. [prob. origin A. arbutifolia × A. melanocarpa; treats under A. melanocarpa (Michx.) Elliott].
• Huxley, A., ed. 1992. The new Royal Horticultural Society dictionary of gardening.
• Jones, R. L. 2005. Plant life of Kentucky: an illustrated guide to the vascular flora. [not as hybrid].
• Kartesz, J. T. 1994. A synonymized checklist of the vascular flora of the United States, Canada, and Greenland.
• Liberty Hyde Bailey Hortorium. 1976. Hortus third.
• Magee, D. W. & H. E. Ahles. 1999. Flora of the Northeast. A manual of the vascular flora of New England and adjacent New York.
• Mohlenbrock, R. H. & D. M. Ladd. 1978. Distribution of Illinois vascular plants. [not as hybrid].
• Porcher, M. H. et al. Searchable World Wide Web Multilingual Multiscript Plant Name Database (MMPND) (on-line resource).
• Radford, A. E. et al. 1964. Manual of the vascular flora of the Carolinas. [= Sorbus arbutifolia var. atropurpurea (Britton) C. K. Schneid.].
• Robertson, K. R. et al. 1991. A synopsis of genera in Maloideae (Rosaceae). Syst. Bot. 16:391. [= Photinia floribunda (Lindl.) K. R. Robertson & J. B. Phipps].
• Scoggan, H. J. 1978–1979. The flora of Canada, 4 vol. [= P. arbutifolia var. atropurpurea (Britton) B. L. Rob.].
• Uttal, L. J. 1984. Nomenclatorial changes, lectotypification, and comments in Aronia Medikus (Rosaceae). Sida 10:199–202.
• Virginia Botanical Associates. Digital atlas of the Virginia flora (on-line resource).
• Voss, E. 1972–. Michigan flora. [not as hybrid, includes A. melanocarpa as synonym].
• Walters, S. M. et al., eds. 1986–. European garden flora.
• Weakley, A. S. 2007. Flora of the Carolinas, Virginia, and Georgia, and surrounding areas. [not as hybrid].
• Wetter, M. A. et al. WISFLORA: Wisconsin vascular plant species (on-line resource).
• Wherry, E. T. et al. 1979. Atlas of the flora of Pennsylvania. [not as hybrid].
• Webster's third new international dictionary.

More:

Search AGRICOLA article citation database for citations referencing Aronia x prunifolia.

Search NCBI's Entrez search engine for PubMed citations referencing Aronia x prunifolia.

Search Biodiversity Heritage Library for historical publications referencing Aronia x prunifolia.

Synonyms:

• (≡) Crataegus prunifolia (Marshall) Baumg.
  (previously associated with 1 accession)
• (≡) Mespilus prunifolia Marshall (basionym)
  
• (=) Photinia floribunda (Lindl.) K. R. Robertson & J. B. Phipps
  (previously associated with 4 accessions)
• (=) Pyrus floribunda Lindl.
  

Check other web resources for Aronia ×prunifolia (Marshall) Rehder:

• PLANTS: USDA-NRCS Database of Plants of the United States and its Territories
• BONAP: North American Plant Atlas of the Biota of North America Program
• TROPICOS: Nomenclatural and Specimen Database of the Missouri Botanical Garden
• Mansfeld: Mansfeld's World Database of Agricultural and Horticultural Crops
• ICRA: International Cultivar Registration Authority (on-line resource). for Aronia x prunifolia cultivars
• ePIC: Electronic Plant Information Centre of Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
• AGRICOLA: Article Citation Database or NAL Catalog of USDA's National Agricultural Library
• Entrez: NCBI's search engine for PubMed citations, GenBank sequences, etc.

Images:

• GRIN Images of germplasm accessions.

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• Check PlantSystematics.org for additional images
• Images Note: Be advised that their identity may be inaccurate. Proper identification of a plant may require specialized taxonomic knowledge or comparison with properly documented herbarium material.

Abbreviations & symbols in GRIN Taxonomy

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