Berberis sublevis
Credits
Article from Bean's Trees and Shrubs Hardy in the British Isles
Recommended citation
'Berberis sublevis' from the website Trees and Shrubs Online (treesandshrubsonline.
Genus
Other taxa in genus
- Berberis actinacantha
- Berberis aetnensis
- Berberis aggregata
- Berberis angulosa
- Berberis aristata
- Berberis asiatica
- Berberis atrocarpa
- Berberis beaniana
- Berberis bergmanniae
- Berberis buxifolia
- Berberis calliantha
- Berberis canadensis
- Berberis candidula
- Berberis × carminea
- Berberis chillanensis
- Berberis chrysosphaera
- Berberis comberi
- Berberis concinna
- Berberis coxii
- Berberis cretica
- Berberis darwinii
- Berberis dasystachya
- Berberis diaphana
- Berberis dictyoneura
- Berberis dictyophylla
- Berberis empetrifolia
- Berberis fendleri
- Berberis francisci-ferdinandii
- Berberis gagnepainii
- Berberis glaucocarpa
- Berberis gyalaica
- Berberis hakeoides
- Berberis heterophylla
- Berberis heteropoda
- Berberis hispanica
- Berberis hookeri
- Berberis hypokerina
- Berberis ilicifolia
- Berberis incrassata
- Berberis insignis
- Berberis jamesiana
- Berberis johannis
- Berberis julianae
- Berberis kawakamii
- Berberis koreana
- Berberis lecomtei
- Berberis lepidifolia
- Berberis linearifolia
- Berberis lycioides
- Berberis lycium
- Berberis manipurana
- Berberis mitifolia
- Berberis montana
- Berberis morrisonensis
- Berberis mucrifolia
- Berberis orthobotrys
- Berberis poiretii
- Berberis prattii
- Berberis pruinosa
- Berberis replicata
- Berberis × rubrostilla
- Berberis sanguinea
- Berberis sargentiana
- Berberis sibirica
- Berberis sieboldii
- Berberis silva-taroucana
- Berberis soulieana
- Berberis × stenophylla
- Berberis temolaica
- Berberis thunbergii
- Berberis tischleri
- Berberis triacanthophora
- Berberis tsarongensis
- Berberis umbellata
- Berberis valdiviana
- Berberis veitchii
- Berberis vernae
- Berberis verruculosa
- Berberis virescens
- Berberis vulgaris
- Berberis wardii
- Berberis wilsoniae
- Berberis yunnanensis
- Berberis zabeliana
An evergreen shrub of sturdy habit from 5 to 7 ft high; shoots ribbed, glabrous, armed with three-pronged spines up to 11⁄4 in. long. Leaves varying from solitary to fascicles of six, 11⁄2 to 3 in. long, 1⁄4 to 1⁄2 in. wide, oblong-lanceolate, the base cuneate, the apex acute, spine-tipped, margins spiny, green beneath, glabrous. Flowers in close clusters of up to twelve, each on a slender stalk 1⁄2 to 1 in. long, fragrant, pale orange-yellow according to Forrest, 1⁄2 in. wide. Fruits small, deep red, 1⁄4 in. or less long, narrowly oval.
Native of Yunnan, China, discovered by Forrest in 1912. It belongs to the Wallichianae section and has the characteristic dark green, more or less oblong leaves of that group. It was shown at Vincent Square on 9th March 1937 as “B. wallichiana microcarpa”, carrying primrose-yellow flowers.