Sea Buckthorn berries

I have planted a sea buckthorn in my allotment and was hoping to get some berries off it sometime in the future.
I have since read that I need to have a male and female plant together for the berries to grow! Is this true and if so how do I know if I have a male or female plant (it doesnt appear to hae a tail I can lift up), and where would I get the other sex plant from?

 

Hippophae rhamnoides [ sea buckthorn]
genus of small shrubs or trees with inconspicuous flowers, grown for their foliage and showy fruits. you need SEPARATE MALE AND FEMALE plants in order to obtain the fruits.
Where did you get the original plant from? perhaps they have the opposite one, with out seeing the plant close up unable to tell whilst still dormant..

 

Thanks but how can you tell the difference?

 

Lift it's tail? :D

Seriously.
British Columbia Min. of Ag. Special crops: Sea Buckthorn

4 Page .pdf file, very detailed but gives all you need to know. The stuff grows rampant at the coast round here and suckers will break through and travel under tarmac paths :eek: It also has wicked spines. It can be a real thug and is used to consolidate sand dunes. Berries are great food for birds, edible, rich in Vit C etc. and can used to make a sharp jam.

If I get the chance I'll try and get photos of male and female flowers at the weekend.

[ 12. April 2006, 07:07 PM: Message edited by: frogesque ]

 

that's a really useful site, Froggy - I googled earlier and came up with nothing very useful - just the description of the plant, nothing about m/f differences - (not even where the tail is!!)
It's a great plant tho - very useful in a native hedge in particular