Overview
Interesting Facts
Common Names
Common Names in English:
Chinese Beauty-Berry, Purple Beauty-Berry, Purple Beautyberry
Description
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
Species Callicarpa dichotoma
Shrubs 1(-3) m tall, much branched. Branchlets slender, with stellate hairs when young. Leaves sessile or subsessile ; leaf blade lanceolate to obovate , 2-6(-10) X 1-3(-4) cm, papery , abaxially with small yellow-glandular stellate hairs on margins , adaxially glabrous and subscabrous, base cuneate, margin coarsely dentate along apical part, apex usually very short acuminate with an obtuse tip , veins 4 or 5 pairs. Cymes 1-2.5 cm across; peduncle slender, 8-12 cm; bracts linear . Calyx cup-shaped, less than 1 mm, subtruncate, obscurely dentate, outside few glandular . Corolla purple, tube 2 X as long as calyx tube. Stamens exserted; filaments 2 X as long as corolla tube, glabrous. Ovary glabrous, sparsely yellow glandular. Fruit subglobose, 1-2 mm in diam., with few glands . 2n = 36. [source]
Habit: Rounded deciduous shrub with arching branches that touch the ground at their tips .
Flowers: Pale pink flowers in June-August. • Bloom Period: June. • Flower Color: pale pink
Seeds: Fruit: Abundant violet berries .
Foliage: Fall foliage: Yellow.
Size/Age/Growth
Growth Rate: Fast. • Size: 4-6' tall and as wide.
Habitat
Mixed forests on mountain slopes ; below 600 m [2].
Biology
Reproduction
Duration: Perennial
Growth
Culture: Space 36-48" apart.
Soil: Well-drained soil. • Minimum pH: 5.6 • Maximum pH: 7.5
Sunlight: Sun Exposure: Full sun to part shade.
Temperature: Cold Hardiness: 5a, 5b, 6a, 6b, 7a, 7b, 8a, 8b. (map)
Taxonomy
- Kingdom:
Plantae
(
)
- Plants
- Phylum:
Tracheophyta
()
- Vascular Plants
- Class:
Magnoliopsida
()
- Dicotyledons
- Order:
Lamiales
()
- Subfamily:
Scrophularioideae
()
- Tribe:
Callicarpeae
()
- Genus:
Callicarpa
()
- C. Linnaeus, 1753
- Beautyberry
- Specific epithet:
dichotoma
- Raeusch.
- Botanical name: - Callicarpa dichotoma Raeusch.
- Specific epithet:
dichotoma
- Raeusch.
- Genus:
Callicarpa
(
- Tribe:
Callicarpeae
(
- Subfamily:
Scrophularioideae
(
- Order:
Lamiales
(
- Class:
Magnoliopsida
(
- Phylum:
Tracheophyta
(
Synonyms
Callicarpa purpurea Juss. • Porphyra dichotoma Loureiro
Notes
Publishing author : Raeusch. Publication : Nomencl. Bot. [Raeusch.] ed. 3, 37 1797
Similar Species
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
- An enumeration of Philippine flowering plants, Manila, Bureau of Printing, 1922-26. url p. 384.
- Botanical publications of E.D. Merrill. [New York, etc., 1899- url .
- Brooklyn Botanic Garden record. 22 1933 [Brooklyn]: Brooklyn Botanic Garden, 1912-44. url p. 7.
- Bulletin - Massachusetts Agricultural Experiment Station. Amherst, : Massachusetts Agricultural Experiment Station, 1907-1974. url p. 15, p. 48, p. 81.
- Flora of Japan: in English: combined, much revised and extended translation / by the author of his Flora of Japan (1953) and Flora of Japan, Pteridophyta (1957); edited by Frederick G. Meyer and Egbert H. Walker. Washington: Smithsonian Institution, 1965. url p. 764.
- Manual of vascular plants of the lower Yangtze Valley, China. Corvallis, Oregon State College[1958] url p. 327.
- Phytologia memoirs. Plainfield, N.J.: H.N. Moldenke and A.L. Moldenke, 1980- url p. 13, p. 14, p. 16, p. 258, p. 276, p. 280, p. 291, p. 298, p. 299, p. 300, p. 302, p. 303, p. 305, p. 345, p. 526.
- Phytologia. Bronx Park, New York, H.A. Gleason and H.N. Moldenke, url p. 103, p. 126, p. 152, p. 157, p. 163, p. 165, p. 167, p. 20, p. 206, p. 225, p. 255, p. 266, p. 333, p. 34, p. 35, p. 36, p. 37, p. 379, p. 39, p. 400, p. 402, p. 425, p. 429, p. 449, p. 467, p. 472, p. 473, p. 478, p. 480, p. 481, p. 483, p. 53, p. 57, p. 59, p. 88.
- Plantae Wilsonianae; an enumeration of the woody plants collected in western China for the Arnold arboretum of Harvard university during the years 1907, 1908, and 1910, by E. H. Wilson, ed. by Charles Sprague Sargent. Cambridge, University Press, 1913-17. url p. 368, p. 370, p. 520, p. 544, p. 545, p. 547.
- Plants for California landscapes: a catalog of drought tolerant plants. [Sacramento, Calif.]: State of California, Resources Agency, Dept. of Water Resources, [1979] url p. 48.
- Sargent, C. S. Plantae Wilsonianae: an enumeration of the woody plants collected in western China for the Arnold arboretum of Harvard university during the years 1907, 1908, and 1910 /by E. H. Wilson, ed. by Charles Sprague Sargent. 3 1917 Cambridge: The University press, 1913-17. url p. 368, p. 370, p. 520, p. 544, p. 545, p. 547, p. 590.
- The Philippine journal of science. 13 1918 Manila. url p. 156, p. 388.
- The first fifty years of the Arnold Arboretum [by] C.S. Sargent. Cambridge, Mass., 1922 url p. 145.
- The standard cyclopedia of horticulture; a discussion, for the amateur, and the professional and commercial grower, of the kinds, characteristics and methods of cultivation of the species of plants grown in the regions of the United States a Illustrated with colored plates, four thousand engravings in the text, and ninety-six full-page cuts. New York, Macmillan, 1919 [c1914] url p. 3583, p. 628.
- P'ei Chien & Chen Shou-liang, eds. 1982. Verbenaceae. Fl. Reipubl. Popularis Sin. 65(1): 1-229.
Notes
Contributors
- Brands, S.J. (comp.) 1989-present. The Taxonomicon. Universal Taxonomic Services, Zwaag, The Netherlands. Accessed January 10, 2012.
Data Sources
Accessed through GBIF Data Portal November 18, 2007:
- Missouri Botanical Garden, Missouri Botanical Garden
- National Institute of Genetics, ROIS, Herbarium Specimens of Museum of Nature and Human Activities, Hyogo Pref., Japan
- USDA PLANTS, USDA PLANTS Database
Identifiers
- Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 2654900
- Catalogue of Life Accepted Name Code: ITS-32145
- Global Biodiversity Information Facility Taxonkey: 13746081
- Globally Unique Identifier: urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:861304-1
- GRIN Nomen Number: 8519
- Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS) Taxonomic Serial Number (TSN): 32145
- International Plant Names Index (IPNI) ID: 861304-1
- Natural Heritage Network Species Identifier: PDVER05030
- U.S.D.A. Plant Symbol: CADI
- Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 25476
Footnotes
- "Callicarpa". in Flora of China Vol. 17 Page 4. Published by Science Press (Beijing) and Missouri Botanical Garden Press. Online at EFloras.org. [back]
- "Callicarpa dichotoma". in Flora of China Vol. 17 Page 11. Missouri Botanical Garden Press. Online at EFloras.org. [back]
