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Berberis darwinii, Darwin's barberry, [3] is a species of flowering plant in the family Berberidaceae, [4] native to southern Chile and Argentina and naturalized elsewhere. Regional vernacular names include michay, calafate, and quelung. [5] Growing to 3–4 m (9.8–13.1 ft) tall, it is an evergreen thorny shrub.
The Berberidaceae are a family of 18 genera of flowering plants commonly called the barberry family. This family is in the order Ranunculales. The family contains about 700 known species, [1] of which the majority are in the genus Berberis. The species include trees, shrubs and perennial herbaceous plants.
Berberis (/ ˈ b ɜːr b ər ɪ s /), commonly known as barberry, [1] [2] is a large genus of deciduous and evergreen shrubs from 1–5 m (3.3–16.4 ft) tall, found throughout temperate and subtropical regions of the world (apart from Australia). Species diversity is greatest in South America and Asia; Europe, Africa and North America have ...
Berberis nevinii (syn. Mahonia nevinii, Odostemon nevinii [2]), known by the common name Nevin's barberry, is a species of flowering shrub in the barberry family. This plant is endemic to southern California , where it is known from very few occurrences in the riparian areas of chaparral in inland canyons and foothills.
Mahonia species bear pinnate leaves 10–50 cm (3.9–19.7 in) long with 3 to 15 leaflets, and flowers in racemes which are 5–20 cm (2.0–7.9 in) long. Several species are popular garden shrubs, grown for their ornamental, often spiny, evergreen foliage, yellow (or rarely red) flowers in autumn, winter and early spring, and blue-black berries.
Loropetalum: fringe flowers; Loropetalum chinense: Chinese fringe flower; Chinese witch hazel Hamamelidaceae (witch-hazel family) Hippocastanaceae: buckeye family; Aesculus: buckeyes and horse-chestnuts; Aesculus flava: yellow buckeye Hippocastanaceae (buckeye family) 332 Aesculus glabra: Ohio buckeye; fetid buckeye Hippocastanaceae (buckeye ...
Berberis vulgaris, also known as common barberry, [3] European barberry or simply barberry, is a shrub in the genus Berberis native to the Old World. It produces edible but sharply acidic berries, which people in many countries eat as a tart and refreshing fruit.
Berberis canadensis is one of only two simple-leaved or 'true' Berberis indigenous to the United States. The other is B. fendleri of the southwest U.S. The epithet "canadensis" literally means "Canadian" but was often used by 18th-century botanists to refer to any plants growing in northeastern North America.