Plant Details
Berberis calliantha
Chinese Barberry
Exposure:
Light/Bright Shade
Plant Category:
Deciduous Shrubs & Broadleaf Evergreens
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Good foundation plant or accent for the garden, this evergreen shrub, to 3-5 ft tall x 3 ft wide but easily trimmed, has small, holly-like leaves, dark green and shiny, contrasting with the reddish brown stems. Spring flowers are light yellow, inverted cups, nearly 1" across; autumn berries are blue-black as the common name suggest. Easy in sun to light shade with some summer water. Frost hardy to 0F, USDA zone 7.
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Submitted by Ref: Plantlust.com on 11/8/2012 4:20 PM
Good foundation plant or accent for the garden. Evergreen shrub, to 3-5' tall x 3' wide but easily trimmed, with small, holly-like leaves, dark green and shiny, contrasting with the reddish brown stems. Spring flowers are light yellow and large, nearly 1" across; autumn berries are blue-black as the common name suggest. Easy in sun to light shade with some summer water. Frost hardy to 0 °F, USDA zone 7.
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Submitted by Ref: Plantlust.com on 11/8/2012 4:20 PM
A rare Tibetian shrub with holly like spine toothed leaves and yellow 1" yellow flowers that are larger than the usual Berberis flowers. It forms a dense 2-3' rounded shrub with red young stems and after the flowers black fruits appear. Interesting.
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Submitted by Ref: Plantlust.com on 11/8/2012 4:20 PM
A deserving Award of Merit winner for: its compact dwarf (to 3') habit, for its small evergreen holly-like foliage ; for its large (up to an inch across) creamy-yellow flowers followed by blue-black fruit. Sun/Med
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