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Callicarpa americana

(American Beauty Berry)

Overview

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Interesting Facts

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Common Names

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Common Names in English:

American Beauty Berry, American Beauty-Berry, American Beautyberry, Beauty-Berry, French Mulberry, French-Mulberry

Description

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Genus Callicarpa

Shrubs or trees , erect or rarely climbing ; hairs stellate , verticillately branched, dendritic , mealy tomentose , or rarely simple and hooked . Branchlets terete or 4-angled. Leaves opposite or in 3s. Cymes axillary , sessile or pedunculate ; bracts linear . Calyx campanulate , truncate or minutely 4-dentate, unaltered in fruit. Corolla actinomorphic , campanulate or tubular , lobes 4. Stamens 4, inserted on corolla tube ; filaments slender, often exserted; anthers ovate or oblong , dehiscing by longitudinal slits or circular pores . Ovary imperfectly 2-locular; ovules 2 per locule, attached to middle or distal part of ovary. Style usually longer than stamens; stigma usually dilated . Fruit a small globose drupe, endocarp bony, mesocarp fleshy , exocarp thin. Seeds small, oblong; seed coat membranous; cotyledons fleshy.

About 140 species: mainly in tropical and subtropical Asia, few in tropical America and Africa, and very few in temperate Asia and North America; 48 species in China.[1]

Physical Description

Habit: Shrub

Flowers: Bloom Period: March, April, May, June. • Flower Color: inconspicuous, lavender, near white, none, pale pink, violet, white

Size/Age/Growth

Size: 4-6' tall.

Habitat

Typically found at an altitude of 0 to 634 meters (0 to 2,080 feet).[2]

Biology

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Reproduction

Duration: Perennial

Growth

Culture: Space 4-6' apart.

Soil: Minimum pH: 5.6 • Maximum pH: 7.5

Sunlight: Sun Exposure: Sun to Partial Shade.

Temperature: Cold Hardiness: 6a, 6b, 7a, 7b, 8a, 8b, 9a, 9b, 10a, 10b. (map)

Taxonomy

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Synonyms

Acacia fasciculata (Willd.)poir. • Anneslia fasciculata (Willd.)kleinhoonte • Calliandra angustidens Britton & Killip • Calliandra tenuiflora Benth. • Feuilleea fasciculata Kuntze • Inga fasciculata Willd.

Notes

Publishing author : Lour. Publication : Fl. Cochinch. 1: 70 1790 [Sep 1790]

Similar Species

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Members of the genus Callicarpa

ZipcodeZoo has pages for 21 species, subspecies, varieties, forms, and cultivars in this genus:

C. acuminata (Beautyberry) · C. americana (American Beauty Berry) · C. americana caroliniana (American Beautyberry) · C. americana var. ampla (American Beautyberry) · C. ampla (Cap Rosa) · C. bodinieri (Bodinier Beautyberry) · C. bodinieri var. giraldii (Beautyberry) · C. bodinieri var. giraldii 'Profusion' (Beautyberry) · C. cathayana (China Beautyberry) · C. dichotoma (Chinese Beauty-Berry) · C. dichotoma 'Albifructus' (White Beautyberry) · C. dichotoma 'Early Amethyst' (Early Amethyst Purple Beautyberry) · C. dichotoma 'Issai' (Japanese Beautyberry) · C. japonica (Japanese Beautyberry) · C. japonica var. luxurians (Japanese Beautyberry) · C. japonica 'Issai' (Issai Purple Beautyberry) · C. japonica 'Leucocarpa' (Japanese Beautyberry) · C. japonica 'Zhou Zhou Fuchsia' (Japanese Beautyberry) · C. kwangtungensis (China Beautyberry) · C. mollis (Japanese Beautyberry) · C. shikokiana (China Beautyberry)

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Further Reading

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Notes

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Contributors

Data Sources

Accessed through GBIF Data Portal November 18, 2007:

Identifiers

Footnotes

  1. "Callicarpa". in Flora of China Vol. 17 Page 4. Published by Science Press (Beijing) and Missouri Botanical Garden Press. Online at EFloras.org. [back]
  2. Mean = 91.530 meters (300.295 feet), Standard Deviation = 197.100 based on 614 observations. Altitude information for each observation from British Oceanographic Data Centre. [back]
Last Revised: 7/15/2012