Plants of South Eastern New South Wales

Berberis floribunda

Common name

Berberis, Nepal Barberry

Family

Berberidaceae

Where found

Forest and urban bushland. Mostly between Mittagong, Robertson, and Wingello. Doubtfully naturalised in the ACT.

Notes

Introduced evergreen shrub to 3 m high. Stems spiny; leaves often with spiny teeth. Fruit fleshy. Stems hairless. Leaves on the main stems reduced to spines, usually deeply divided into 3 spines, each 10–30 mm long. Leaves clustered on short shoots, 2–6.5 cm long, 5–30 mm wide, margins entire or with irregular spiny teeth, often with spines at their bases. Flowers yellow, to about 10 mm in diameter, with 6–12 petals in 2 or 3 whorls. Flowers in elongated clusters 1.5–10 cm long. Fruit bright red, ripening to blue with a waxy bloom, oval to round, 8–11 mm long.

Was Berberis aristata.

PlantNET description:  http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Berberis~floribunda (accessed 4 January, 2021)