Scientific Name: Callicarpa dichotoma x kwangtungensis 'NCCX2'
Common Name: Pearl Glam™ beautyberry, hybrid callicarpa
Family Name: Lamiaceae
Origin: Garden origin
Hardiness Zone: Zone 5: (-29 to -23 °C)
Plant Type: Shrub - deciduous
Mature Size: 0.7 - 1.3m x 0.6 - 1.0m (height x width)
Habit: Dense, Upright
Form: Round
Texture: Medium
Landscape Uses: Attract birds, Container planting, Cut flower or foliage, Fall interest, Mixed shrub border, Specimen plant
Exposure: Full sun, Part sun/part shade
Soil or Media: Well-drained
Leaves: Simple, Opposite, Soft flexible, Pinnate venation, Pubescent, Branching hairs, Glandular hairs, Lanceolate, Ovate, Serrate
Flowers: Cyme, White, Pink, Jul-Aug
Fruit: Drupe, Purple, Aug-Sep, (Persistent)
Key ID Features:
Leaves simple, opposite, ovate-lanceolate, most 3-6cm long x 1.5-3cm wide, serrate, pubescent; cymes arising from leaf axils, florets tightly clustered, pink-white; drupes purple, very showy in fall. Winter ID: compact rounded shrub up to 1.2m tall; twigs reddish; lenticels prominent, persistent dried drupes.