Mahonia fremontii

Drawing of Fremont's Mahonia ( Mahonia fremontii )

Fremont's Mahonia ( Mahonia fremontii ) is a plant from the family of Barberry Family ( Berberidaceae ). It occurs in the states of California, Nevada, Utah, Colorado and Mexico.

Description

Fremont's Mahonia is an upright, cantilevered up to 3.5 meters tall shrub; The leaves are up to 10 inches long and from 3 to 7, wavy on rank, spiked, pointed serrate, oblong- lanceolate, waxy, frosted, yellow to gray- green pinnate leaves - assembled. The yellow flowers appear towards the end of winter and sit tight in up to 5 cm long racemes. In the fall of mature egg-shaped dark blue and white- frosted berries.

Use

This type is rarely used as an ornamental shrub in gardens and parks; it is very sensitive to frost.

Swell

  • Walter Erhardt, Götz, Boedeker, Seybold: Zander Dictionary of Plant Names, 17th edition, Eugen Ulmer GmbH & Co., Stuttgart 2002, ISBN 3-8001-3573-6
  • Cheers Gordon (ed.): Botanica, Könemann Verlagsgesellschaft mbH, Cologne 2000, ISBN 3-8290-0868-6
  • The Royal Horticultural Society: The Great Plant Encyclopedia A - Z, eds Christopher Brickell, Dorling Kindersley Verlag GmbH, Starnberg, 2004, ISBN 3-8310-0657-1
  • Barberry
  • Ornamental tree
Genus Species John Torrey Friedrich Karl Georg Fedde
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