Berberis valdiviana
28th April 2012
A tall growing species from Chile. I have admired it for years in gardens but it is difficult to propagate
and I have only just been able to obtain one.
25th April 2015
4th April 2019
A Chilean species described by Philippi in 1856 and introduced to Kew in 1902. Plants in currently in cultivation come from seed
collected by Clarence Elliott and Dr Gourlay in 1929 near Temuco (now the capital of the Cautin Province in southern Chile).
References:
James Armitage, Dawn Edwards, Neil Lancaster, John G. Hillier and Roy Lancaster (eds), The Hillier Manual of Trees and Shrubs, 8th edition, 2014.
W. J. Bean, Trees and Shrubs Hardy in the British Isles, Eighth edition.
Trees and Shrubs Online. https://treesandshrubsonline.org (31.01.20).