(Kostenlos herunterladen) Pheasant Berry Plant
Dark green usually with wavy edges and in pairs opposite each other along the stem.
Pheasant berry plant. The berry is like a small gooseberry reddish purple and ripen in october. Small white trumpet shaped flowers growing in pendulous racemes covered in purple bracts. The berries are a favourite of birds. The species is also known as pheasant eye himalayan honeysuckle and false nutmeg. When ripe the berries are dark brown purple to almost black and are found under. A robust and easily grown shrub from china and tibet this is often planted agriculturally as cover for game birds. 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.
In mid summer it is covered with 4 inch long pendulous drooping clusters of dark purplish red bracts and white flowers.