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Caillcarpa dichotoma |
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Purple
Beautyberry |
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Bushy,
rounded shrub with arching branches. |
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4-6 feet
tall with a similar spread. |
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Flowers are
small, pink, in many flowered, axillary cymes,
˝-1 inch across |
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July |
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Leaves are
opposite, simple, 2-5 inches long, elliptic with
both ends tapered, coarsely serrate. |
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Fall color
is purplish, late in the season. |
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Stems are
round, slender, purplish in color. |
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Fruit is a
violet to metallic-purple, berry-like drupe in clusters, ripening in October-November,
attractive. |
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