Short stemmed barberry
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Short stemmed barberry with buds |
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The Short-stalked barberry ( Berberis brachypoda ) is a plant from the family of Barberry (Berberidaceae). It is located in northwest China .
description
The short-stemmed barberry is a deciduous (deciduous) shrub that can reach a height of up to 2 meters. The twigs are gray-yellow in color, runny and finely haired, the thorns are three-part. The leaves are yellow-green and bare on the top and hairy on the underside and are up to 5 centimeters long, ovate to obovate, wedge-shaped, pointed, reticulate and finely serrated on each side. The pale yellow, externally reddish flowers appear in May 20 to 30 in dense, slender, hanging racemes up to 12 centimeters long. The egg-shaped berries are deep red and shiny.
use
This species and its varieties are rarely used as an ornamental shrub in gardens and parks.
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 .