Wednesday, February 8, 2023

In the garden and in the wild

 I saw Beale’s barberry, also called leatherleaf mahonia, blooming in the woods. It’s a native of China and went around the world as an ornamental plant.

Wikipedia says that Berberis bealei “has reportedly escaped cultivation and become established in the wild in scattered places” including Georgia. I think we can remove the “reportedly.” The question has been decided.

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