HIPPOPHAE rhamnoides
´Leikora´

A broad and upright-growing shrub with sturdy fruiting branches; fruits large, deep orange-red, cylindrical to bead-like, fixed densely on fruiting sprigs, ripening rather late (mid September to mid October), fruit colour remains even after frosts throughout the winter - a beloved cultivar with high vitamin C-content, and especially lovely as ornamental shrub and for bouquets; brought into trade by H.-J. ALBRECHT, Berlin, in 1979. D, H, St. Zone 4.