Beautiful blooming barberry
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Beautiful flowering barberry ( Berberis calliantha ) |
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The beautiful Flowering barberry ( Berberis calliantha ) is a plant from the family of Barberry (Berberidaceae).
description
The beautiful flowering barberry is an evergreen, dwarf shrub that has a broad habit and rarely grows higher than 1 meter; young shoots are colored red. The up to 6 centimeters long, elliptical to elongated holly-like leaves are glossy dark green on the top and white waxy on the underside. The hanging pale yellow flowers are up to 2.5 centimeters wide, stand individually, in twos or threes and appear in spring. The egg-shaped fruits are deep purple and frosted with gray.
Occurrence
Berberis calliantha is native to the humid mountains of southeast Tibet .
Systematics
With the warty barberry ( Berberis verruculosa ), the beautiful flowering barberry forms the hybrid Berberis × bristolensis Ahrendt .
use
This species is rarely used as an ornamental shrub in gardens and parks; it is frost hardy.
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 , 3rd edition, Könemann Verlagsgesellschaft mbH, Cologne 2000, ISBN 3-8290-0868-6
- The Royal Horticultural Society: Die Große Pflanzenenzyklopädie AZ , Ed. Christopher Brickell, Dorling Kindersley Verlag GmbH, Starnberg 2004, ISBN 3-8310-0657-1
