Celtis Australis Mediterranean Hackberry

Celtis Australis Mediterranean Hackberry can be used as a lawn, street, or shade tree. Mediterranean Hackberry grows in an upright-arching branching habit and has a rounded spreading crown form. It adorns rough-textured, sharply-toothed, ovate-lanceolate, dark green leaves. The leaves with gray pubescent beneath have undistinguished yellow fall color. Mediterranean Hackberry blooms insignificant, apetalous, unisexual, or bi-sexual green flowers in spring. The female flowers give way to rounded, fleshy, berry-like drupes, which mature to dark purple in fall. The fleshy part of the edible fruit is slightly sweet and has a single seed. Mediterranean Hackberry prefers full sun and thrives in moist, organically rich, well-drained soils.