Berberis sargentiana Schneid.

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Article from Bean's Trees and Shrubs Hardy in the British Isles

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'Berberis sargentiana' from the website Trees and Shrubs Online (treesandshrubsonline.org/articles/berberis/berberis-sargentiana/). Accessed 2024-03-29.

Infraspecifics

Other taxa in genus

Glossary

apex
(pl. apices) Tip. apical At the apex.
glabrous
Lacking hairs smooth. glabrescent Becoming hairless.
lanceolate
Lance-shaped; broadest in middle tapering to point.
section
(sect.) Subdivision of a genus.

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Credits

Article from Bean's Trees and Shrubs Hardy in the British Isles

Recommended citation
'Berberis sargentiana' from the website Trees and Shrubs Online (treesandshrubsonline.org/articles/berberis/berberis-sargentiana/). Accessed 2024-03-29.

An evergreen shrub up to 6 ft high, forming thickets of erect stems; young shoots glabrous, reddish, becoming grey; armed with three-pronged spines that are 12 to 114 in. long, sharp and rigid, grooved beneath. Leaves narrowly elliptic or oblong-lanceolate, slender-pointed, 112 to 5 in. long, 12 to 114 in. wide, edged with forward-pointing spiny teeth (sometimes double); dark green above, paler and distinctly veined on the undersides, quite glabrous on both surfaces. Flowers pale yellow, about 13 in. across, borne in stalkless clusters of two to six; petals broadly obovate, notched at the apex; individual flower-stalk up to 34 in. long. Fruit black when ripe, broadly egg-shaped, 13 in. long.

Native of W. Hupeh, China; introduced by Wilson in 1907. It is allied to B. hookeri and similar in habit, but hardier. In the Arnold Arboretum it is described as the only evergreen barberry known to be hardy there. At Kew it has withstood, quite unaffected, weather which injured B. hookeri.

From the Supplement (Vol. V)

The statement that this species is allied to B. hookeri was retained from earlier editions and should have been altered. It is true only in the sense that both are members of the section Wallichianae, of which B. hookeri was the commonest evergreen Asiatic species before the arrival of the Wilson introductions from western China.

B. dumicola – This species is out of place here, being grouped in the new classification with B. pruinosa.


B dumicola Schneid

This attractive species is closely related to the preceding but is smaller in stature, the flowers richer coloured and more numer­ous, and the berries bloomy.