10 Graines Arbuste aux bonbons violets, Callicarpa dichotoma

Violet candy shrub, Callicarpa dichotoma |

Callicarpa Dichotoma is a shrub of the Verbénaceae (or according to the phylogenetic classification of the Lamiacae family). Synonym : Porphyra Dichotoma Lour.

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It grows at the foot of the mountain and reaches a height of 1.5 meters. The bark is grayish brown and the young branches are square and have dark purple star -shaped hair, but they gradually disappear. The leaves are opposite, 3 to 8 cm long and 1.5 to 3 cm wide, oblong or inverted egg -shaped, pointed end. The surface is dark green and the back is light green, and unlike Harpon tree , there are sawtooth from the lower third of the edge. In July-August, 10 to 20 flowers hang in pale or purple purple in an oval inflorescence from the leaf armpit. The chalice has no hair and has 4 stamens and is the same length as the style. The fruit is a drupe about 3 to 4 millimeters in diameter, which is round and matures in dark purple in October

It is a shrub up to 3 M high at the maximum, with deciduous foliage. The sessile leaves are lanceolate. The cymes carry small flowers of less than 1 MM in diameter with purple corolla. Fruits - Violets - have 1 to 2 mm in diameter. This plant is native to East Asia : China (Anhui, Fujian, Guangdong, Guangxi, Guizhou, Hebei, Henan, Hubei, Hunan, Jiangsu, Jiangxi, Shandong, Taiwan, Zhejiang). Japan, Korea, Vietnam. It has the original habitat of mixed forests in the middle mountains as a home (below 600 M).

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