Mahonia Japonica Bealei Group
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Mahonia japonica bealei group. The species span u s. Mahonia leaves spiny edges offer no protection against a group of leaf feeding insects. Mahonia bealei beal s mahonia mahonia japonica bealei group. Search over 7 000 plants in our plant guide.
Rust fungi including cumminsiella. It is native to western china. What is a leather leaf mahonia. Grows 1012 feet high and 10 feet wide with strong pattern of vertical stems horizontal foliage.
Leatherleaf mahonia mahonia japonica bealei group mahonia bealei zones us ms ls cs. Short upright racemes of wonderfully fragrant lemon yellow flowers open for 4 6 weeks in winter. Woody plant usually having a permanent framework of branches. Mahonia japonica japanese mahonia is a slow growing evergreen used in landscapes as an accent.
What is hardy shrub. Learn about the leather leaf mahonia plant of mahonia japonica bealei group genus. See what to plant when thanks to our seasonal gardening guide and plant finder so your flowers and vegetables look amazing whatever the climate. Genus mahonia are evergreen shrubs with leathery pinnate leaves which are often spine toothed and clustered racemes of sometimes fragrant yellow flowers sometimes followed by black or purple berries.
Department of agriculture plant hardiness zones 5 to 10 but two commonly grown varieties are oregon holly grape mahonia aquifolium suitable for zones 5 to 9 and. Japonica native to taiwan. It is very similar to m. Synonyms berberis bealei mahonia japonica bealei group.
Mahonia bealei beale s barberry is a shrub native to mainland china anhui fujian guangdong guangxi henan hubei hunan jiangsu jiangxi shaanxi sichuan zhejiang. Mahonia bealei leatherleaf mahonia useful for shady areas of the garden mahonia bealei leatherleaf mahonia is an upright evergreen shrub with a striking foliage of large leathery blue green leaves each composed of 9 13 broad spiny leaflets. Mahonia bealei commonly known as beale s barberry or leatherleaf mahonia is an evergreen shrub with pinnate compound leaves which typically grows in a multi stemmed clump to 4 10 tall but occasionally taller. Leaflets grayish or bluish green above olive green below with spiny toothed edges.
This honeydew drenches leaves and branches luring sooty molds that cover the shrubs with velvety black fungal mats. Capable of withstanding outdoor winter temperatures down to 15c. The night feeding larvae hatch within four days feed for two weeks leaving nothing but leaf skeletons in their wake and drop to the soil to pupate. Other common names beal s mahonia.