Mahonia Berberidaceae. Mahonia, Now Often Placed Within Berberis
104 ‘flowers brilliantly during the late November-January. Flowers are bright yellow standing up above the foliage and possess a M most pleasant perfume’; erect shrub, about3m in height, leaves dark green, to 40 cm long, clustered towards tips of stems, Mahonia pinnate with 17-21, flowers bright yellow, fragrant, about 1cm Berberidaceae. across, clustered in slender, erect or slightly arching, spikes, about 30cm long, about 10 spikes forming a crown at tip of each Mahonia, now often placed within Berberis, was named branch; Winter. Produces new growth freely from base, unlike after the Irish-born horticulturist Bernard McMahon of ‘Charity’. Philadelphia, USA. Origin: selected from the batch of Mahonia lomariifolia seed sown at the Slieve Donard Nursery, and then named M. x media ‘Charity’ and introduced by the Slieve Donard Nursery, Newcastle,1940s Shrub to 3 or more metres tall; leaves compound with about 19 Co. Down, after Sir Eric Savill has recognized the worth of leaflets; flowers in more or less erect spikes, lemon-yellow, the other seedlings and named ‘Charity’. November to March, ‘We are fortunate in being able to offer a form of [‘Charity’] Origin: at the Slieve Donard Nursery a batch of seed, which we have raised and christened.’ gathered from an open-pollinated plant of M. lomariifolia, I was, of course, shocked beyond words to find that I was sown and the resulting seedlings grown on. A quantity had let this wonderful hybrid [‘Charity’] slip through of these were sold to John Russell of L. R. Russell Ltd, my hands. Admittedly the plant was a tiny seedling Richmond Nursery, and then they were acquired by Sir Eric when I parted with it and no one could have spotted it.
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