Barberry - Golden Pillar trimmer ornamental shrub

ornamental shrub

3 inches tall

Fifteen pounds of nutritious berries can be harvested every year from this 4 foot tall bush

and high flesh-to-pit ratio

for example

Barberry - Golden Pillar trimmer ornamental shrubNoteworthy Characteristics Berberis thunbergii, commonly called Japanese barberry, is a spiny, broad rounded, deciduous shrub with obovate green leaves. It typically matures to 5' tall and as wide. Leaves (variably sized to 1 1 4 long) typically turn attractive shades of orange, yellow and red in fall. Genus name comes from the Latinized form of the Arabian name for the fruit. Specific epithet honors Swedish botanist Carl Peter Thunberg (1743 1828)