Mahonia × herveyi
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'Mahonia × herveyi' from the website Trees and Shrubs Online (treesandshrubsonline.
Synonyms
- Mahonia rotundifolia var. herveyi Morel
Other taxa in genus
- Mahonia acanthifolia
- Mahonia aquifolium
- Mahonia arguta
- Mahonia bealei
- Mahonia confusa
- Mahonia fortunei
- Mahonia gracilipes
- Mahonia × heterophylla
- Mahonia japonica
- Mahonia lomariifolia
- Mahonia × media
- Mahonia napaulensis
- Mahonia nervosa
- Mahonia pinnata
- Mahonia pumila
- Mahonia repens
- Mahonia × toluacensis
- Mahonia trifolia
Editorial Note
As Bean’s entry indicates, this taxon is obscure, currently unplaced taxonomically (POWO 15/4/2025). To avoid introducing further confusion, we reproduce Bean’s text verbatim without attempting to update the nomenclature.
According to the original description, this mahonia is bushy and compact, with dark green, roundish-oval, plane, almost spineless leaves; raised by a M. Hervé of Versailles (May, in Rev. Hort. (1881), p. 250, as M. rotundifolia, with M. hervei Hort. as a synonym; M. × hervei Ahrendt (“herveyi”), nom. superfl.). A plant at Kew, which may have belonged to the true clone, was said in previous editions to make a low tuft and to have the leaflets often in threes. This plant cannot be traced. It has been suggested that this mahonia is a hybrid between M. repens and M. aquifolium, but other authorities consider it to be a form of M. repens merely. For other possible hybrids between these two species see under M. aquifolium.