Alnus rubra 7gal Red Alder 2026star Starstruck Blue Star

Starstruck Blue Star

horizontal shrub

OMRI Listed® for organic gardening

Daphnoides Rhododendron

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Alnus rubra 7gal Red Alder 2026star Starstruck Blue StarRed Alder. Wavy, toothed, green leaves with revolute margins. Long catkins in spring. Small, brown, cone like strobiles persist through winter. Likes wet soil. Red Alder hosts a kind of bacteria called Frankia in nodules on its roots. Frankia has a symbiotic relationship with Alder: the tree receives nitrogen in the form of ammonia converted from atmospheric nitrogen by the bacteria, and the bacteria receives carbon and energy sources from the tree in