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

at a meadow or woodland edge

'Leslie Ann' grows open and upright

The genus honors Georg Josef Kamel

periodically flooded ground yet at finest on deep

plus the Piedmont of the Carolinas

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