Callicarpa dichotoma 'Splashy' George Forrest at a meadow or woodland

at a meadow or woodland edge

Poncirus trifoliata

plus the Piedmont of the Carolinas

The genus is ancient: Carya ranged widely in the Tertiary

though seedlings pull easily

Callicarpa dichotoma 'Splashy' George Forrest at a meadow or woodlandCallicarpa dichotoma belongs to the mint family, Lamiaceae, though the beautyberries wear their kinship lightly. The genus name comes from the Greek kallos, beauty, and karpos, fruit, a promise the plant keeps every autumn, while the epithet dichotoma describes the way the slender branches fork in neat pairs, giving the shrub a tiered, arching silhouette. Native across East Asia, from China and Korea into Japan and Vietnam, the purple beautyberry has