Autumn-Olive (Elaeagnus umbellata var. parvifolia)

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Other names: Silverberry

	Autumn-Olive is a fairly common to abundant evergreen large shrub or small tree from eastern Asia. One of our worst invasive weed problems. The small white (fading to yellow) flowers have a sickly-sweet aroma. Durham Co., NC 4/15/2011.
	Autumn-Olive blooms in the spring and fruit ripens in fall, unlike Thorny-Olive (E. pungens), which blooms in fall and fruits in the spring. Durham Co., NC 4/15/2011.

	Chapel Hill, NC 5/2/09.
	The leaves are densely covered with silvery scales beneath and have scattered silvery scales above. The petioles and young branchlets are also covered with silvery scales. Chapel Hill, NC 5/2/09.

	Bark detail.

More information:
Exotic Pest Plants of Southeastern Forests
The Nature Conservancy
Pacific Island Ecosystems at Risk
University of Connecticut
Virginia Tech Dendrology

Trees, Shrubs, and Woody Vines of North Carolina

All photographs and text ©2011 by Will Cook unless otherwise indicated.