[95] Mahonia Bealei Leaf
The species is hermaphrodite has both male and female organs and is pollinated by insects.
[75] Mahonia Bealei Leaf . It is in leaf all year in flower from january to march and the seeds ripen from april to may. 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. It s a medium sized bush that reminds you of holly but with compound leaves borne on upright stems.
Mahonia japonica bealei sku 6090 an attractive upright shrub with distinctive evergreen foliage and terminal clusters of showy fragrant yellow flowers followed by highly ornamental powder blue to black grape like fruit clusters. 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. It is very similar to m.
Leaves are up to 50 cm long with 4 10 pairs of leaflets plus a much larger terminal leaflet. Leatherleaf mahonia mahonia bealei won t resemble any other plants in your garden. It is hardy to zone uk 6 and is not frost tender.
Leatherleaf mahonia is almost a signature plant of the south. Flowers are borne in an erect raceme up to 30 cm long. Mahonia bealei is an evergreen shrub growing to 2 m 6ft by 2 m 6ft at a slow rate.
It is native to western china. Japonica native to taiwan. The spiny leaves make a fine barrier plant or specimen.
The leaves look like holly plant leaves and are a bit spiny like those of their relations barberry shrubs. A coarse textured flowering shrub it does best in a somewhat shaded location. In large numbers scale insects mealybugs thrips and whiteflies discolor curl or distort mahonia foliage.
Mahonia leaves spiny edges offer no protection against a group of leaf feeding insects. The pale yellow flowers form in long racemes of about eight inches and the leaves are blue green turning dusky maroon during winter. Short upright racemes of wonderfully fragrant lemon yellow flowers open for 4 6 weeks in winter.
The broadleaf evergreen foliage is coarse and distinctive. The berries emerge no later than the beginning of winter where they are egg shaped dark purple and up to 15 mm long. Mahonia nervosa cascade long leaved or dull oregon grape this oregon grape is lower growing evergreen shrub topping out at about two feet.
The pinnately compound leaves are composed of nine to thirteen leaflets that are adorned with very sharp teeth at the margins.