[90] Pheasant Berry Plant
The berries are a favourite of birds.
[97] Pheasant Berry Plant Herunterladen. They love the ripe berries hence the common name pheasant berry. When ripe the berries are dark brown purple to almost black and are found under. Leycesteria formosa the himalayan honeysuckle flowering nutmeg himalaya nutmeg granny s curls or pheasant berry is a deciduous shrub in the family caprifoliaceae native to the himalaya and southwestern china.
Pheasant berry golden lanterns leycesteria is a hot new shrub with attractive clean bright yellow green foliage with hints of red in the new growth. The species is also known as pheasant eye himalayan honeysuckle and false nutmeg. Flower spikes produced between june and september arranged in tiers with claret coloured bracts.
Small white trumpet shaped flowers growing in pendulous racemes covered in purple bracts. Dark green usually with wavy edges and in pairs opposite each other along the stem.