Scarlet barberry
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The scarlet barberry ( Berberis × carminea ) is a hybrid of the cluster-fruited barberry ( Berberis aggregata ) and a variant of Wilson's barberry ( Berberis wilsoniae var. Parvifolia ).
description
It is an evergreen shrub with yellow, curved and furrowed branches that can reach heights of 1.5 meters. The leaves are narrow, obovate, gray-blue on the underside, up to 3.5 centimeters long, with 2 to 4 teeth on each side and nerve-like. The yellow flowers appear in May and are 10 to 16 in loose panicles up to 5 centimeters long. The fruits are egg-shaped and red-orange to carmine-red in color.
use
Like many other barberries, this type of plant and its varieties are often used as ornamental shrubs. Different varieties are known:
- 'Barbarossa' with bright red fruits
- 'Buccaner' with leaves that are green in winter; numerous spherical, shiny red fruits
- 'Pirate King' with tall growth and bright scarlet red fruits
- 'Wisley' broad and tall growth, large, spherical fruits, pink to orange-red.
swell
- Andreas Roloff , Andreas Bärtels: Flora of the woods. Purpose, properties and use . 2nd, completely revised 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 .
- Christopher Brickell, The Royal Horticultural Society (ed.): The great plant encyclopedia. A to Z. Dorling Kindersley, Starnberg 2004, ISBN 3-8310-0657-1 .