Berberis × rubrostilla
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Article from Bean's Trees and Shrubs Hardy in the British Isles
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'Berberis × rubrostilla' from the website Trees and Shrubs Online (treesandshrubsonline.
Genus
Infraspecifics
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 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 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
This beautiful deciduous barberry was raised in the Royal Horticultural Society’s garden at Wisley and was first exhibited on 7th November 1916 at the Horticultural Hall, Westminster, when it was awarded a First Class Certificate. It was raised from seed of B. wilsoniae, the result of hybridisation by insect agency with some other species, possibly B. aggregata. In foliage it bears considerable resemblance to B. wilsoniae, the leaves being oblanceolate, but they are, on the average, larger. Its remarkable beauty is in its fruits, which are borne two to four on a main-stalk 3⁄4 in. long and hang from the branches in great profusion. Each berry is about 5⁄8 in. long, oblong-ovoid, and of a beautiful translucent coral-red.
Two excellent fruiting shrubs of the same type are ‘Crawleyensis’, raised by Messrs Cheal, with remarkably large fruits, and ‘Cherry Ripe’, a seedling from it raised by Mrs Ahrendt of Stonefield, Watlington, Oxon., with almost round berries which are creamy white when young, becoming cherry-red. For other deciduous hybrids see B. × carminea.
From the Supplement (Vol. V)
It should be added to the description that the flowers of this berberis are large – about 5⁄8 in. across.
The statement that the original plant was raised from seed of B. wilsoniae requires qualification. Mr Chittenden, who described it in 1917, later told Dr Ahrendt that the seed-parent came from Veitch’s Coombe Wood nursery under the label B. wilsoniae, but that it differed somewhat from the other plants in the batch and might, he thought, have been a seedling raised at Coombe Wood from a plant of the true B. wilsoniae. As to ‘Rubrostilla’, it is not impossible that B. angulosa or one of its allies such as B. concinna might have been the pollen-parent. In view of its obscure parentage, ‘Rubrostilla’ does not merit botanical recognition as B. × rubrostilla. Still less would it be appropriate to place under this collective name the clones mentioned under B. × carminea, which have a quite different type of inflorescence.
‘Rubrostilla’ is still available in commerce.