Fremont's Oregon Grape
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Drawing of Fremont's Oregon Grape ( Mahonia Fremontii ) |
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Mahonia fremontii ( Mahonia fremontii ) is a plant from the family of Barberry (Berberidaceae). It occurs in the American states of California , Nevada , Utah , Colorado and Mexico .
description
Fremont's Oregon Grape is an upright, spreading shrub to 3.5 meters high ; the leaves are up to 10 centimeters long and composed of 3 to 7, wavy, spiked, pointed, oblong-lanceolate, waxy, frosted, yellow to gray-green pinnate leaflets. The yellow flowers appear towards the end of winter and sit tightly in bunches up to 5 centimeters long. Egg-shaped, dark-blue and white-frosted berries ripen in autumn.
use
This species is rarely used as an ornamental shrub in gardens and parks; it is very sensitive to frost.
swell
- Robert Zander : Zander. Concise dictionary of plant names. Edited by Walter Erhardt , Erich Götz, Nils Bödeker, Siegmund Seybold . 17th edition. Eugen Ulmer, Stuttgart 2002, ISBN 3-8001-3573-6 .
- Gordon Cheers (Ed.): Botanica , Könemann Verlagsgesellschaft mbH, Cologne 2000, ISBN 3-8290-0868-6
- The Royal Horticultural Society: Die Große Pflanzenenzyklopädie A - Z , Ed. Christopher Brickell, Dorling Kindersley Verlag GmbH, Starnberg 2004, ISBN 3-8310-0657-1