Great Barberry - Berberis glaucocarpa
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Great Barberry - Berberis glaucocarpa | dylan | Blaise Castle | 28 Apr 2022, 9:40 p.m. | 27 Apr 2022, 2:37 p.m. | |
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Great Barberry - Berberis glaucocarpa | dylan | Blaise Castle | 28 Apr 2022, 9:40 p.m. | 27 Apr 2022, 2:37 p.m. | |
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Great Barberry - Berberis glaucocarpa | dylan | Blaise Castle | 28 Apr 2022, 9:40 p.m. | 27 Apr 2022, 2:37 p.m. |
Species Description
Stace 4:
Berberis glaucocarpa Stapf - Great Barberry.
Semi-evergreen shrub to 3m; spines mostly 3-partite; leaves 2.5-6(8)cm, oblanceolate to obovate, entire to sparsely spinose-toothed; flowers in stiff but often pendent racemes 20-70mm, yellow; fruit bluish-black, with dense white bloom. Neophyte-naturalised; planted for hedging and ornament; long naturalised in hedges in South Somerset and occasionally bird-sown elsewhere in Britain North to Renfrews; West Himalayas.
Key:
- Flowers in raceme with common penduncle
- Spines 1-3cm, 1-3-partite; leaves 2.5-8cm; flowers yellow