Berchemia
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Berchemia - A small group of shrubby climbing plants or low trees, of the Buckthorn order, found in parts of Asia, Africa, and N. America, and for the most part too tender for our gardens.
The Berchemias grow in any good garden soil, and may be used to cover tree-stumps and roots, arbours, trellis, and the like. Increase by seeds, root-cuttings, layers, or cuttings of the ripened shoots, rooted under glass in the autumn.
Berchemia Pictures
Berchemia scandens (Hill) K. Koch - Alabama supplejack |
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Berchemia Volubilis
Berchemia Volubilis - upple Jack) from Carolina. A vigorous and graceful summer-leafing climber of 10 to 20 feet, with bright glossy green oval leaves, sharply pointed and slightly waved. Inconspicuous green and white flowers appear from the leafaxils and the tips of the shoots, in June, and these are followed by oval fleshy fruits of a bluish-black color. This species is hardy almost anywhere in Britain.
Berchemia racemosa
A nearly allied plant, B. racemosa, from Japan, is less freely climbing in habit, with more rounded leaves, greenish flowers and showy fruits turning from bright red to black. There is a form of this kind in which the leaves are heavily variegated, but this is tender and needs partial shade.
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