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Frangula alnus alnus (Glossy Buckthorn)

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Wikipedia Abstract

Frangula alnus, commonly known as the alder buckthorn, glossy buckthorn, or breaking buckthorn, is a tall deciduous shrub in the family Rhamnaceae. It is native to Europe, northernmost Africa, and western Asia, from Ireland and Great Britain north to the 68th parallel in Scandinavia, east to central Siberia and Xinjiang in western China, and south to northern Morocco, Turkey, and the Alborz and Caucasus Mountains; in the northwest of its range (Ireland, Scotland), it is rare and scattered. It is also introduced and naturalised in eastern North America.
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Attributes

Flower Type [1]  Hermaphrodite
Hazards [1]  The plant is poisonous unless stored for 12 months before use; This report is probably referring to the bark.
Janka Hardness [2]  1120 lbf (508 kgf) Soft
Leaf Type [1]  Deciduous
Lifespan [3]  Perennial
Pollinators [1]  Insects, Lepidoptera
Specific Gravity [5]  0.499
Structure [1]  Shrub
Usage [1]  A yellow dye is obtained from the leaves and bark; It is much used in Russia and turns black when mixed with salts of iron; A green dye is obtained from the unripe fruit; A blue or grey dye is obtained from the ripe berries; Plants can be grown as an informal (untrimmed) hedge, though they are also amenable to trimming; The cultivar 'Tallhedge (syn 'Columnaris') is very suitable for this purpose; The wood is used to make wooden nails, shoe lasts, veneer etc; It is the source of a high quality charcoal that is used by artists;
Height [1]  16.4 feet (5 m)
Width [1]  13.12 feet (4 m)
Light Preference [4]  Mixed Sun/Shade
Soil Acidity [4]  Moderate Acid
Soil Fertility [4]  Intermediate
Soil Moisture [4]  Damp
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Ecosystems

Predators

Providers

Pollinated by 
Dolerus vestigialis[8]
Synanthedon spheciformis (White-barred Clearwing )[8]

Consumers

Parasitized by 
Ascochyta frangulina[8]
Bucculatrix frangutella[8]

External References

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♦ 1Plants For A Future licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License
♦ 2Wood Janka Hardness Scale/Chart J W Morlan's Unique Wood Gifts
♦ 3PLANTATT - Attributes of British and Irish Plants: Status, Size, Life History, Geography and Habitats, M. O. Hill, C. D. Preston & D. B. Roy, Biological Records Centre, NERC Centre for Ecology and Hydrology (2004)
♦ 4ECOFACT 2a Technical Annex - Ellenberg’s indicator values for British Plants, M O Hill, J O Mountford, D B Roy & R G H Bunce (1999)
♦ 5Chave J, Coomes D, Jansen S, Lewis SL, Swenson NG, Zanne AE (2009) Towards a worldwide wood economics spectrum. Ecology Letters 12: 351-366. Zanne AE, Lopez-Gonzalez G, Coomes DA, Ilic J, Jansen S, Lewis SL, Miller RB, Swenson NG, Wiemann MC, Chave J (2009) Data from: Towards a worldwide wood economics spectrum. Dryad Digital Repository.
♦ 6HOSTS - a Database of the World's Lepidopteran Hostplants Gaden S. Robinson, Phillip R. Ackery, Ian J. Kitching, George W. Beccaloni AND Luis M. Hernández
♦ 7Biological Records Centre Database of Insects and their Food Plants
♦ 8Ecology of Commanster
♦ 9Food eaten by the free-living European bison in Białowieża Forest, Zofia GĘBCZYŃSKA, Marek GĘBCZYŃSKI and Ewa MARTYNOWICZ, Acta Theriologica 36 (3-4), 307-313, 1991.
♦ 10Ben-Dov, Y., Miller, D.R. & Gibson, G.A.P. ScaleNet 4 November 2009
♦ 11Jorrit H. Poelen, James D. Simons and Chris J. Mungall. (2014). Global Biotic Interactions: An open infrastructure to share and analyze species-interaction datasets. Ecological Informatics.
♦ 12Frugivorous diet of autumn migrant Pied Flycatchers Ficedula hypoleuca: a review and new data, A. Hernández, Butll. GCA 16: 53-60, 1999
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Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0