Scientific Name: Callicarpa bodinieri var. giraldii 'Profusion'
Common Name: beautyberry
Family Name: Lamiaceae
Origin: Garden origin, S.E. Asia / Japan / China
Hardiness Zone: Zone 6: (-23 to -18 °C)
Plant Type: Shrub - deciduous
Mature Size: 2 - 3m x 2 - 3m (height x width)
Habit: Arching, Stiffly upright
Form: Vase
Texture: Medium
Landscape Uses: Attract birds, Cut flower or foliage, Fall interest, Group or mass planting, Medicinal plant, Mixed shrub border, Specimen plant, Tall background
Exposure: Full sun, Part sun/part shade
Soil or Media: Well-drained
Leaves: Simple, Opposite, Soft flexible, Pinnate venation, Pubescent, Elliptic, Obovate, Serrulate
Flowers: Cyme, Pink, Jun-Aug
Fruit: Drupe, Violet, Pink, Red, Sep-Oct
Key ID Features:
Tall, twiggy, vase shaped; stems tan, slightly pubescent; leaves opposite, serrate, bronze when young then dark green, elliptic-obovate, 5-14cm long x 3-7cm wide; flowers small, pale pink, cymes from leaf axils; fruit dark-violet, metallic lustre. Winter ID: buds opposite, pubescent, ovoid, about 3mm long; leaf scars oval to kidney-shaped; red to brown dried berries.