Indian-currant

Indian-currant Care

Symphoricarpos Orbiculatus

What is the plant

S. orbiculatus is a dense, bushy, deciduous shrub with ovate to broadly elliptic, dark green leaves, brighter when young, and, in late summer and early autumn, dense clusters of tiny, bell-shaped, sometimes pink-flushed, white flowers followed by ovoid to spherical, deep reddish-purple fruit.

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Humidity

Normal

Lighting

Part Sun

Hardiness zone

2 - 7

Difficulty

Medium

Hibernation

Cold Period

Toxicity

Poisonous

How to Care for the Plant

Water
The Coralberry grows best with watering each week. Increase the frequency of watering when it gets hot.
Pruning
Cutting the coralberry shrub to the ground in winter will encourage thicker, bushier plant growth as well as controlling several types of fungi that may infect the plants
Sunlight
in partial to full sun

Disease diagnosis

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Soil
Make sure to keep the Coralberry in soil with well-draining, to moist but well-draining, and to even poorly draining properties, so ideally, one that is made of clay, loam, chalk, and sand.
Temperature
A very hardy plant, tolerating temperatures down to about -40°c
Additional
No report of toxicity has been seen for this species but the fruit of many if not all members of this genus contains saponins. Although toxic, these substances are very poorly absorbed by the body and so tend to pass through without causing harm. They are also destroyed by thorough cooking. Saponins are found in many plants, including several that are often used for food, such as certain beans. It is advisable not to eat large quantities of food that contain saponins but it would take extremely large doses of many kilos of fruit from this plant in order to produce toxic symptoms[65]. Saponins are much more toxic to some creatures, such as fish, and hunting tribes have traditionally put large quantities of them in streams, lakes etc in order to stupefy or kill the fish