Plant Database - Shrubs
American Beautyberry
(Callicarpa americana)
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Callicarpa americana (American beautyberry)
Photo/Illustration: Jerry Pavia
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American beautyberry and Japanese beautyberry grow 4 to 6 feet tall and wide, but can reach 8 to10 feet under favorable growing conditions. Generally, these shrub species develop a rounded shape with long, arching branches and light green foliage.
American Beautyberry - Callicarpa americana
Beautyberry gifts gardeners and wildlife with bright magenta berries clustered like beaded bracelets along the stem. Amethyst amulets adorn the fall and winter garden.
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American beautyberry occurs naturally from Maryland, south to Florida, and southwesterly into Tennessee, Arkansas, and Texas. It also grows in Mexico, Bermuda, the Bahamas and Cuba.
American Beautyberry [English]: Callicarpa americana
American Beautyberry [English]: Callicarpa americana caroliniana
American Beautyberry [English]: Callicarpa americana var. ampla
American Beech [English]: Fagus grandifolia ...
Callicarpa americana (American Beautyberry, Family: Verbenaceae)
Callisia fragrans, Spironema fragrans (Basket Plant, Golden tendril, Russian Holistic Medicinal Plant, Family: Commelinaceae) ...
koreana Korean Boxwood Buxus sempervirens Common Boxwood Buxus sempervirens 'Arborescens' Tree or American Boxwood Buxus sempervirens 'Suffruticosa' English Boxwood Botanical Name Common Name Callicarpa americana American Beautyberry Callicarpa ...
Other common names are American beautyberry and American mulberry.
About This Plant
Fast-growing deciduous shrubs, beautyberries grow 4 to 8 feet tall and wide.
Callicarpa americana American Beautyberry, French Mulberry (kal-i-KAR-pa a-mer-I-KA-na)
Deciduous shrub grows rapidly to 3-8 ft wide and 6 ft wide (0.9-2.4 x 1.8 m), with an open habit. Considered the coarsest of the ones mentioned here.
Callicarpa americana : American Beautyberry - Whole Plant
Callicarpa dichotoma : Purple Beautyberry - Flowers
Calycanthus floridus : Common Sweetshrub - Whole Plant ...
Form: A small tree or a large suckering shrub reaching up to 25 feet tall with opposite branches, a short trunk and a narrow, oblong crown.
Looks like: buttonbush - common sweetshrub - green ash - American beautyberry ...
 See also: Beautyberry, Callicarpa americana, Green, Pink, May
  
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