Berberis incrassata
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Article from Bean's Trees and Shrubs Hardy in the British Isles
Recommended citation
'Berberis incrassata' from the website Trees and Shrubs Online (treesandshrubsonline.
Genus
Other taxa in genus
- Berberis actinacantha
- Berberis aetnensis
- 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 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
An evergreen shrub of low growth; shoots glabrous, terete, reddish, thornless. Leaves elliptic-lanceolate, or narrowly oval, 2 to 5 in. long, 3⁄8 to 1 in. wide, strongly armed with stiff marginal teeth; stalkless, shining pale green beneath, borne singly and alternately on young shoots and in axillary clusters on older wood. Flowers 3⁄8 to 1⁄2 in. across, bright yellow, borne in short-stalked, dense clusters of fifteen to thirty; petals obovate. Fruit ‘grape purple’.
Native of N. Burma, discovered by Kingdon Ward and introduced in 1931. It is a handsome foliage shrub belonging to the Wallichianae group and shows relationship with B. insignis, especially in the unarmed shoots. The foliage is particularly interesting for the pale green of the under-surface. It was first distinguished in the collection at Wisley but is not now in cultivation there. The specific name refers to the curious thickening upwards of the flower-stalks.
From the Supplement (Vol. V)
This now ranks as a subspecies of B. insignis – subsp. incrassata (Ahrendt) D. Chamberlain & C. M. Hu.
