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  • So is the barberry, from shrubby species of the northern-hemisphere Berberis, which is something like a miniature cranberry and dries well.

    On Food and Cooking, The Science and Lore of the Kitchen Harold McGee 2004

  • So is the barberry, from shrubby species of the northern-hemisphere Berberis, which is something like a miniature cranberry and dries well.

    On Food and Cooking, The Science and Lore of the Kitchen Harold McGee 2004

  • Above tree line, moist alpine scrub of juniper and rhododendron together with deciduous shrubs such as Berberis spp.,

    Northeastern Himalayan subalpine conifer forests 2008

  • Fruits were named after successful voyagers like Sweden’s C. P. Thunberg, who managed to penetrate Japan’s borders to pinch the barberry—now known as Berberis thunbergii—and bring it back to Europe.

    The Fruit Hunters Adam Leith Gollner 2008

  • Fruits were named after successful voyagers like Sweden’s C. P. Thunberg, who managed to penetrate Japan’s borders to pinch the barberry—now known as Berberis thunbergii—and bring it back to Europe.

    The Fruit Hunters Adam Leith Gollner 2008

  • Fruits were named after successful voyagers like Sweden’s C. P. Thunberg, who managed to penetrate Japan’s borders to pinch the barberry—now known as Berberis thunbergii—and bring it back to Europe.

    The Fruit Hunters Adam Leith Gollner 2008

  • At the far west end, a group of Berberis thunbergii ‘Rose Glow’ have massed together with no pruning to form an inpenetrable thorny privacy barricade hedge.

    No Mow « Fairegarden 2010

  • They were perfectly constructed, attached to the dense branches of the Berberis thunbergii ‘Rose Glow’, glistening with liquid fog.

    Weavings « Fairegarden 2010

  • The principal species in the forests include southern beech Nothofagus antarctica, N. pumilio (the most abundant), N. betuloides (at its southernmost limit), and N. dombeyi (which replaces N. betuloides from 48°S); other typical species are Fuchsia magellanica, Winter's bark Drimys winteri, Ribes magellanicus, Berberis buxifolia, Pernettya mucronata, Philesia buxifolia, and Guaytecas Islands cypress Pilgerodendron uviferum (R).

    Los Glaciares National Park, Argentina 2009

  • Festuca argentina, and Poa spp., interspersed with bushes of Mulinum spinosum and Berberis buxifolia.

    Los Glaciares National Park, Argentina 2009

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