Darwin's Barberry - Berberis darwinii

Berberis darwinii is a dense, medium-sized evergreen shrub, with dark glossy green, broadly oblong, sparsely-spined leaves, and drooping racemes of rich orange flowers, tinged red in bud, followed by blue-black berries.

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Often planted as hedging or as a barrier.

Flowering April and May.

Evergreen shrub.

Widespread across Britain as a planted shrub.

Rarely recorded in Leicestershire and Rutland.