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Berberis aetnensis
Credits
Article from Bean's Trees and Shrubs Hardy in the British Isles
Recommended citation
'Berberis aetnensis' from the website Trees and Shrubs Online (treesandshrubsonline.
Other taxa in genus
- Berberis actinacantha
- Berberis aggregata
- Berberis angulosa
- Berberis aristata
- Berberis asiatica
- Berberis atrocarpa
- Berberis beaniana
- Berberis bergmanniae
- Berberis buxifolia
- Berberis calliantha
- Berberis canadensis
- Berberis candidula
- Berberis × carminea
- Berberis chillanensis
- Berberis chrysosphaera
- Berberis comberi
- Berberis concinna
- Berberis coxii
- Berberis cretica
- Berberis darwinii
- Berberis dasystachya
- Berberis diaphana
- Berberis dictyoneura
- Berberis dictyophylla
- Berberis empetrifolia
- Berberis fendleri
- Berberis francisci-ferdinandii
- Berberis gagnepainii
- Berberis glaucocarpa
- Berberis gyalaica
- Berberis hakeoides
- Berberis heterophylla
- Berberis heteropoda
- Berberis hispanica
- Berberis hookeri
- Berberis hypokerina
- Berberis ilicifolia
- Berberis incrassata
- Berberis insignis
- Berberis jamesiana
- Berberis johannis
- Berberis julianae
- Berberis kawakamii
- Berberis koreana
- Berberis lecomtei
- Berberis lepidifolia
- Berberis linearifolia
- Berberis lycioides
- Berberis lycium
- Berberis manipurana
- Berberis mitifolia
- Berberis montana
- Berberis morrisonensis
- Berberis mucrifolia
- Berberis orthobotrys
- Berberis poiretii
- Berberis prattii
- Berberis pruinosa
- Berberis replicata
- Berberis × rubrostilla
- Berberis sanguinea
- Berberis sargentiana
- Berberis sibirica
- Berberis sieboldii
- Berberis silva-taroucana
- Berberis soulieana
- Berberis × stenophylla
- Berberis sublevis
- Berberis temolaica
- Berberis thunbergii
- Berberis tischleri
- Berberis triacanthophora
- Berberis tsarongensis
- Berberis umbellata
- Berberis valdiviana
- Berberis veitchii
- Berberis vernae
- Berberis verruculosa
- Berberis virescens
- Berberis vulgaris
- Berberis wardii
- Berberis wilsoniae
- Berberis yunnanensis
- Berberis zabeliana
A deciduous, dwarf, stunted bush about 2 ft high, with crooked branches. Leaves small, 1⁄4 to 3⁄4 in. long, obovate, sometimes bristle-toothed, sometimes entire; spines three-parted, sometimes over 1 in. long. Flowers yellow, in short racemes 3⁄4 to 11⁄4 in. long, carrying six to fifteen flowers. Fruit red.
Native of Sicily and Calabria, a scrubby bush inhabiting the mountains. It flowers in May and June, and is very pretty with its numerous closely set racemes. Suitable for the rock garden.
From the Supplement (Vol. V)
The berries in this species are dark red, and may become almost black when fully ripe.