Doug Woodward wrote: Richard, can you say anything more about when in the fall Eleagnus pungens blooms, especially in terns of what other plants are doing, leaves dropping, fruit ripening etc.? Are the flowers attractive to bees? To Monarch butterflies?
Doug,
from Radford, Ahles, and Bell: Manual Vascular Flora of the Carolinas:
Bloom Oct-Nov; Fruit Mar-Apr.
I have seen honeybees on the blooms locally in October. Don't know about butterflies.
Blooming corresponds with leaf drop for many deciduous trees here.
Richard Moyer
East TN Daffodils blooming despite the cold
Re: [NAFEX] Eleagnus pungens bloom,
Richard Moyer, 02/14/2007