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Berries: (bluish-black, ovaloid, symmetric) |
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23rd March 2010, Leeds & L/pool canal, Appley Bridge, Lancs. | Photo: © RWD |
A garden shrub that can escape and grows up to 3m high. |
24th March 2012, Leeds & L/pool canal, Wigan, Lancs. | Photo: © RWD |
A garden shrub that has escaped but finds it hard to grow taller than the weeds within a the brick wall. |
24th March 2012, Leeds & L/pool canal, Wigan, Lancs. | Photo: © RWD |
Leaves highly distinctive and smaller than most Barberries. |
24th March 2012, Leeds & L/pool canal, Wigan, Lancs. | Photo: © RWD |
Flowers bell-shaped and orange rather than yellow. |
24th March 2012, Leeds & L/pool canal, Wigan, Lancs. | Photo: © RWD |
Flowers can be larger than the leaves when open. |
24th March 2012, Leeds & L/pool canal, Wigan, Lancs. | Photo: © RWD |
Five sepals cup the flower from behind and are are orange-yellow. |
24th March 2012, Leeds & L/pool canal, Wigan, Lancs. | Photo: © RWD |
Pinkish flower-stalks. |
24th March 2012, Leeds & L/pool canal, Wigan, Lancs. | Photo: © RWD |
Style within bell is long and terminated by a prominent disc. Yellow stamens surround it bearing creamy-yellow pollen. |
24th March 2012, Leeds & L/pool canal, Wigan, Lancs. | Photo: © RWD |
Leaves thick and leathery with a dark-green shiny upper surface. Twigs covered in short brown hairs. |
13th July 2012, a garden, Rosthwaite, Cumbria. | Photo: © RWD |
Berries start off greenish, and progress through peach colours to a bloomed blue. They too are distinctive, more globular and bloated than Chinese Barberry and with much longer style at the end which terminates in a smaller disc, looking like miniature blown-up balloons. Berries (and flowers) in pendulous racemes. |
13th July 2012, a garden, Rosthwaite, Cumbria. | Photo: © RWD |
Berries turn blue-black. |
13th July 2012, a garden, Rosthwaite, Cumbria. | Photo: © RWD |
Older leaves have parallel sides, and about six edges, with a forwardly-directed prickly spine at each corner. The two edges at the front are normally indented. |
13th July 2012, a garden, Rosthwaite, Cumbria. | Photo: © RWD |
Berries turn blue-black with a matt bloom. Young leaves do no possess the angular profile. |
13th July 2012, a garden, Rosthwaite, Cumbria. | Photo: © RWD |
Spines are between 3- to 7-partite. (Your Author thinks they must be very short, because these are the only spines he can find in any of his photos (two sets near the centre). |
Uniquely identifiable characteristics Distinguishing Feature : The older leaves have parallel sides and about 5 edges, the two at the front indented. Flowers orange rather than yellow. The spines on the twigs and branches are not simple, but between 3-partite and 7-partite (your Author cannot spot any in his photos).
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Barberry Family [Berberidaceae] |