30+ Pheasant Berry Plant
Small white trumpet shaped flowers growing in pendulous racemes covered in purple bracts.
Pheasant berry plant. They love the ripe berries hence the common name pheasant berry. The berries are a favourite of birds. Flower spikes produced between june and september arranged in tiers with claret coloured bracts. A robust and easily grown shrub from china and tibet this is often planted agriculturally as cover for game birds. Leycesteria formosa the himalayan honeysuckle flowering nutmeg himalaya nutmeg granny s curls or pheasant berry is a deciduous shrub in the family caprifoliaceae native to the himalaya and southwestern china. The species is also known as pheasant eye himalayan honeysuckle and false nutmeg. The berry is like a small gooseberry reddish purple and ripen in october.
Dark green usually with wavy edges and in pairs opposite each other along the stem.