Plant: Early Amethyst - Beautyberry
Beautyberry · Callicarpa dichotoma 'Early Amethyst'
$54.00
Size: 3 gal
Light
Part Shade
Bloom
Summer
Mature size
6 ft tall6 ft wide
More about this plant
A compact, rounded purple beautyberry grown for clusters of vivid purple berries that ripen early, in late summer, and persist after the leaves fall. Small pink flowers appear in summer. It takes full sun or part shade, is drought tolerant once established, and is rarely bothered by deer. Plant in groups for the best berry set.
- Part Shade
- Grows to 6 ft tall and 6 ft wide
- Blooms in summer
- Hardy in USDA zones 6-10
- Deciduous foliage
- Native plant
Plant description
A compact, rounded purple beautyberry grown for clusters of vivid purple berries that ripen early, in late summer, and persist after the leaves fall. Small pink flowers appear in summer. It takes full sun or part shade, is drought tolerant once established, and is rarely bothered by deer. Plant in groups for the best berry set.
- Flowers
- Small pink to lavender flowers in cymes along the stems in summer.
- Foliage
- Opposite, serrate leaves, elliptical to obovate, 1 to 3 inches long, turning gold in fall.
- Fruit
- Small, glossy lilac-violet berries that ripen in late summer and last into fall and early winter.
- Bark & stems
- Gray-brown bark with reddish, round stems carrying conspicuous lenticels.
- Pruning
- Prune in late winter or early spring. Flowers form on new wood.
- Native range
- China, Japan and Korea (species Callicarpa dichotoma).
