Pheasant Berry

Pheasant berry golden lanterns leycesteria is a hot new shrub with attractive clean bright yellow green foliage with hints of red in the new growth.

Pheasant berry. Our botanical team are working hard to increase the number of plants with detailed information. Flower spikes produced between june and september arranged in tiers with claret coloured bracts. Leycesteria formosa from burncoose nurseries available online to buy information. Originating from the himalayas and areas of south west china himalayan honeysuckle leycesteria formosa also known as himalayan nutmeg flowering nutmeg pheasant berry and chocolate berry is a very attractive fast growing white flowered and multi bamboo like stemmed green leafy shrub.

A robust and easily grown shrub from china and tibet this is often planted agriculturally as cover for game birds. Pheasant berry with wine red flower bracts and large red fruits which turn purple. Deciduous oval tapered dark green leaves to 17cm 7in long red wine red. They love the ripe berries hence the common name pheasant berry.

These lovely flowers are followed by dark. A handsome shrub originating in western china and eastern tibet leycesteria formosa has trailing white and claret flowers in mid to late summer. Small white trumpet shaped flowers growing in pendulous racemes covered in purple bracts. The white flowers emerge from burgundy bracts creating a truly opulent display.

This showy pheasant berry bears a profusion of pendulous blooms that drip from the branch tips from june right through to september. A deciduous shrub with hollow stems simple leaves and terminal and axillary racemes of tubular flowers followed by fleshy berries. Search by plant name. Search by plant name key attributes or both to find plant details and a list of suppliers.

Dark green usually with wavy edges and in pairs opposite each other along the stem. It can grow up to 10 foot tall. Leycesteria formosa the himalayan honeysuckle flowering nutmeg himalaya nutmeg granny s curls or pheasant berry is a deciduous shrub in the family caprifoliaceae native to the himalaya and southwestern china.