Arbutus

Arbutus
The strawberry tree. Strawberry trees are not a crop but one of the pre-agricultural sacred food-yielding plants. (1.148) Strawberry trees have the following qualities in the Georgics:
 * their nectar provides food for bees (4.181)
 * the leaves can be harvested as goat feed in winter (3.301)
 * yields its fruit in winter (2.520)
 * can have nuts planted to them (2.69)