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Arching deciduous shrub to 4’ in height, Langhammer hates it because it touches nearby plants (he has a thing about worms too but we won’t go there), but the abundant metallic purple berries are great and it never fails to fruit heavily.

Cutting grown from a plant labeled Bodnieri Profusion from Heronswood. It has extremely large leaves and is quite unlike Callicarpa ‘ex bodnieri Profusion’, Langhammer re- keyed it and insists that this is actually a form of Callicarpa giraldii, a yellow glanded species which is the Asian counterpart of Callicarpa americana and I can believe it. Very large leaved, it tends to behave as a dieback shrub here, berries are great looking and overall it is the most distinctive looking Callicarpa we offer.

The white-fruited form of Japonica, cut stems hold their berries well and are great in dried arrangements. 'Leucocarpa' is lovely in the landscape combined with the purple forms.

Open pollinated seedling of Athens, which is yellow growing side by side with a normal red floridus. We did the cross both ways but the two batches go mixed however that may not make much difference these could be cool. And backcrosses may be even better.

Relatively rare in cultivation, this is the western counterpart of the above with reddish brown flowers and large leathery almost magnolia-like leaves. It's a streamside plant that Ratko collected at relatively low altitude, it has been hardy for us with a bit of protection and is extremely vigorous producing 6’ shoots in a year with flowers that are larger than floridus.