Callicarpa japonica
Common name: 
Japanese Beautyberry
Pronunciation: 
kal-i-KAR-pa ja-pon-I-ka
Family: 
Verbenaceae
Genus: 
Callicarpa
Type: 
Broadleaf
Native to (or naturalized in) Oregon: 
No
  • Broadleaf deciduous shrub, grows quickly to 4-6 ft high (1.2-1.8 m) and as wide or wider, rounded habit, and arching branches.  Leaves opposite, elliptic to ovate, 5-12 cm long wide, long acuminate, serrulate, yellowish glands below.  Flowers pink or white in mid-summer.  Fruit violet to metallic purple, more or less spherical, 4 mm across, in loose clusters.
  • Hardy to USDA Zone 5     Native to Japan.
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    leaves and fruit, fall

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    fruit cluster and leaves, fall