Pleasant barberry
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Drawing of the pleasing barberry ( Berberis concinna ) from Curtis' botanical magazine |
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The pleasing barberry ( Berberis concinna ), also Cute barberry called, is a plant from the family of Barberry (Berberidaceae).
description
The pleasing barberry is a deciduous (deciduous) to evergreen compact shrub that grows spread out or down and can reach a height of 1 meter. The branches are light yellow or reddish brown, glabrous and furrowed. The spines are also light yellow or red-brown and up to 1.8 inches long. The leaves are fresh green on top and whitish (sometimes reddish) on the underside on stems 0.1 to 0.8 centimeters long, are thin leathery, obovate, blunt to pointed and 0.8 to 3.7 centimeters long and 0.4 to 2 centimeters wide. They have indistinct leaf veins in a wide vein network and are serrated on both sides with three to five spines. In autumn the leaves turn red and stay on the plant for a long time. The flowers are deep yellow and sit individually or doubly on peduncles up to 2 centimeters long. The flowering period extends from June to July. The elongated berries are deep red and have five to eight seeds.
Occurrence
It is native to Nepal and the Indian state of Sikkim and inhabits heights of up to 4000 meters.
use
This species and its varieties are used as an ornamental shrub in gardens and parks.
Name declaration
Berberis concinna was described by Joseph Dalton Hooker in 1853 . The specific epithet concinna means "well put together, harmonious".
literature
- Andreas Roloff , Andreas Bärtels: Flora of the woods . 2nd Edition. Eugen Ulmer, Stuttgart (Hohenheim) 2006, ISBN 3-8001-4832-3 .
- 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 .
- Camillo Karl Schneider : Illustrated manual of hardwood science. Gustav Fischer, Jena, 1906 to 1912
- Helmut Genaust: Etymological dictionary of botanical plant names. 3rd, completely revised and expanded edition. Nikol, Hamburg 2005, ISBN 3-937872-16-7 (reprint from 1996).
- Georg Tischler : The Berberidaceae and Podophyllaceen. Attempt of a morphological-biological monograph. In: Botanical yearbooks for systematics, plant history and plant geography. Volume 31, 1902, published by Wilhelm Engelmann, Leipzig
- Junsheng Ying: Berberis concinna. In: Wu Zheng-yi, Peter H. Raven, Deyuan Hong (Eds.): Flora of China . Volume 19: Cucurbitaceae through Valerianaceae, with Annonaceae and Berberidaceae . Science Press / Missouri Botanical Garden Press, Beijing / St. Louis 2011, ISBN 978-1-935641-04-9 , pp. 729 (English). , online