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Sat, Sep 12, 09 at 12:45
| Hi, I am hoping someone can identify this plant from the pictures. I know there are different varieties of beautyberry, and this is growing in an inconvenient location. I didn't know what it was until the berries appeared. I am guessing it was planted by a bird. Click on the photos to see a larger one.
Thanks! Becky |
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- Posted by viburnumvalley z5/6 KY (My Page) on Sun, Sep 13, 09 at 1:38
| It is definitely a Beautyberry (Callicarpa spp.), but it has the large leaves like a Callicarpa americana but small individual fruit like a Callicarpa dichotoma. It's been a long time since I had a third taxa growing here that might fit that combo - Callicarpa bodinieri 'Profusion'. If this was bird-planted, then see which of your neighbors has a plant like it, and take pictures of that and post them. That certainly will aid in ID. 'Profusion' is a much more narrow upright and taller species than the American Beautyberry or the Purple Beautyberry, which both tend to be spreaders. |
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| Hmm, well, I haven't seen any in the neighborhood, but we do have wooded areas nearby. I hadn't considered that it might not be native. I see that C. bodinieri is from China. Are these easy to transplant? As I said, it is in an inconvenient location. I let it grow to see what it was, but it needs to be moved since it is next to the street and almost under a butterfly bush. Thanks! Becky |
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| Callicarpa americana does hold it's fruits close to the stem like this one in your picture. But apparently so does Callicarpa bodinieri! |
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| I have an Early Amethyst, which in this area dies back to the ground each winter. It's been moved so many times around my yard in the past few years - I don't think you can kill it. Even the dog 'watering' it daily for a whole summer only made 1 side turn brown. (That's one of the reasons it got moved.) Just wait to move it until the seeds drop - if it doesn't make it, you'll have some seedlings next year to transplant. |
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