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Callicarpa dichotoma

Botanic Family

Lamiaceae

Author

(Loureiro) K. Koch

Cultivated

C, ornamental

Common Names

• Purple Beauty Berry
• Early Amethyst

Geographical Habitats

• Anhui
• Fujian
• Guangdong
• Guanxi
• Guizhopu
• Hebei
• Henan
• Hubeim
• Hunan
• Jiangsu
• Jiangxi
• Shandong
• Taiwan
• Zhejiang - China
• Korea
• C. & S. Japan
• Vietnam

Natural Habitats

• Shrubland
• thickets
• woodland
• forest
• streamside
• montane forest

Flowering Times

• Apr-Oct (China)

Fruiting Times

• Jun-Nov (China)

Shrub, erect or climbing or a vine to 3m with purplish branches. Leaves to 100mm x 40mm, hairy beneath, glabrous above with dentate margin. Cymes to 25mm wide with bracts, fragrant flowers with a pink, purplish or white corolla, calyx to 1mm. Yellow-red, purplish-red or purple fruit 2mm diameter.

Naturalised in USA

Medicinal

Further References

• The Plant List 2
• Gleason & Moldenke
• Kew
• FOC