While all serviceberry fruit is edible, the tastiest fruit is found on the Saskatoon variety. A member of the genus Amelanchier, serviceberries reward homeowners with a spectacular display of showy white flowers that look like lilacs in the spring, attractive fall foliage, and pretty gray bark.

Is Amelanchier lamarckii poisonous? Amelanchier lamarckii has no toxic effects reported.

Serviceberries may have many names (juneberries, Saskatoon berries, shadberries) but they all share the same sweet taste. Unlike many of the fruit Toronto's urban orchard has to offer, Serviceberry trees are Indigenous to Ontario, which means they are exceptionally hardy and low-maintenance.

Saskatoon berries ripen fairly evenly, and most of the crop can be picked at one time. Smoky: Large, round, fleshy, sweet, mild-flavoured fruit. Shrub is upright and spreading, very productive and suckers freely.. . . . .364011233946!]0000000000000009783314147093!]