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Mahonia
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Image: Moore, Dawn
Common name:
Llwyn Oregon, Oregon Grape
Family:
Berberidaceae
Distribution:
Gardd/Garden
Hardiness:
(H5) Hardy-cold winter. -15 to -10°C (USDA 7b/8a)
Life form:
Evergreen shrub/sub-shrub • Llwyn bytholwyrdd
Geirdarddiad / Etymology:
Mahonia (ma-HO-nee-uh): For Bernard McMahon (1775–1816), American horticulturalist.
Geirdarddiad / Etymology:
x media (MEED-ee-uh): Average, middle.
Dyfarniadau / Awards:
RHS Award of Garden Merit (AGM).
Description:
With spiny, pinnate leaves to 45 centimetres in length. Flowers bright yellow, scented, in clustered upright racemes to 40 centimetres in length. Berries blue-black.
Links:
Royal Horticultural Society
Locations
1:
Apothecary's Garden/Gardd yr Apothecari Windbreak
(APO13)
• Accession: 2002-1441 • Provenance: Garden/Gardd
2:
Gatehouse/Porthdy 05
(GATE05)
• Accession: 2002-1441 • Provenance: Garden/Gardd
3:
Lakeside/Lan y llyn 06
(LSIDE06)
• Accession: 2001-0761 • Provenance: Garden/Gardd
4:
Tŷ Melyn 03
(TM03)
• Accession: 2002-0574 • Provenance: Garden/Gardd
Area
Individual