| 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, flowers 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. | |