Rubin
Variety of Korean barberry · Berberis koreana
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1🇩🇪 Germany
Taste & characteristics
Taste
sour
Profile
- Parentage
- Auslese aus einem Sämlingsbestand; Saatgut aus dem Arboretum Kórnik, Polen
- Breeder
- H.-J. Albrecht, Zuchtstation Berlin-Baumschulenweg
Flowering & harvest
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Description
Fruit
Elliptical to cylindrical dark red fruit 10 to 12 mm long, in pendulous racemes 6 to 8 cm long. They persist on the shrub well into winter.
Growth
Upright shrub with slightly arching shoots, about 2 m tall. Leaves 6 to 9 cm long and 2.7 to 4 cm wide, finely bristly-toothed, bronze-red when young. Late autumn colour, at first yellow-orange, later copper to wine red. Bright yellow flowers in pendulous racemes from mid to late May.
Yield
Very heavy cropping.
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