Tall, spreading, decorative and fruit-yielding shrub. The cultivar yields plenty of yellow-orange berries of pleasant flavour and high medicinal value. The branches have sparse thorns and pretty silvery leaves.

WHAT IT LOOKS LIKE: Fruit edible and decorative, of light orange colour, glossy, oblong, 0.5-0.7 cm wide; ripen between the end of August and September. Modest yellow flowers appear in April-May. Leaves decorative, silvery in vegetation season, in autumn turn yellow-orange. The cultivar produces female flowers, for pollination a male specimen, e.g. 'Pollmix', is needed in vicinity.

HOW IT GROWS: Shrub of a rounded habit. Reaches 4 m height; annual growth rate ca. 50 cm.

WHERE TO PLANT: The plant has low requirements concerning the soil but it thrives in limy ground and in sunny spots. It is resistant to adverse urban conditions and to air pollution. Prolific especially when placed in a sunny site. Suitable for hedges, tolerates pruning, thickens fast. Fully frost hardy (zone 4).

HOW TO PLANT AND MAINTAIN: Before planting immerse the plant container in water for 10-30 min. Place the root ball in a 40 x 40 x 40 cm hole with a 10 cm layer of well-rotten manure or compost, 0.5-1 cm deeper than it was before. Fill the hole with fertile soil. Does not require regular pruning. When the bushes thicken after a couple of years, a thinning may be necessary.

HOW TO APPLY: The shrub is recomended for amateur cultivation in house gardens. Due to its low demands and high resilience to pollution it's also a good choice for public green spaces. The sea-buckthorn fruits are rich in vitamin C (with content 4 times higher than in the black current), vitamins E, F, K, P, folic acid, provitamins A and D as well as micro- and macroelements. They're used for jam, juice, purée and tincture production.

ORIGIN: Selected by Hans Joachim Albrecht of BBC Baumschulen Berlin Containerpflanzen GmbH. The cultivar introduced in the market in 1983.