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Plant Habit: Shrub
Life cycle: Perennial
Sun Requirements: Full Sun to Partial Shade
Water Preferences: Mesic
Dry Mesic
Dry
Plant Height: 12-13 feet (4 m)
Plant Spread: 9-10 feet (3 m)
Leaves: Unusual foliage color
Fruit: Showy
Edible to birds
Fruiting Time: Late summer or early fall
Flowers: Showy
Flower Color: Yellow
Bloom Size: Under 1"
Flower Time: Late spring or early summer
Uses: Will Naturalize
Edible Parts: Fruit
Wildlife Attractant: Bees
Birds
Resistances: Deer Resistant
Propagation: Seeds: Self fertile
Stratify seeds: seeds require a cooling period prior to germination and are best planted in the Fall
Sow in situ
Can handle transplanting
Propagation: Other methods: Cuttings: Stem
Pollinators: Self
Various insects
Miscellaneous: Tolerates poor soil

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Common names
  • European Barberry
  • Common Barberry
  • Barberry
  • Ambarbaris
  • Jaundice Berry

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The tart berries of the Barbery bush.
Location: Europe?
Date: 02/11/2022
photo by Joost J. Bakker IJmuiden via Flickr: https://www.flickr.
Location: Hohe Tauern - Austria
Date: 2018-07-22
Location: Hohe Tauern - Austria
Date: 2018-07-22
Unripe fruit
Location: BG Meise (Belgium)
Date: 2015-10-24
Location: New Zealand
Date: 2015-10-29

Original book source: Prof. dr. Otto Wilhelm Thomé Flora of Germ
Location: New Zealand
Date: 2015-10-29
Uploaded by robertduval14

Date: May
credit: John Cameron
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