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barberry family

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Noun1.barberry family - shrubs or herbs
magnoliid dicot family - family of dicotyledonous flowering plants regarded as among the most primitive of extant angiosperms
order Ranales, order Ranunculales, Ranales, Ranunculales - herbs, shrubs and trees: includes families Ranunculaceae; Annonaceae; Berberidaceae; Magnoliaceae; Menispermaceae; Myristicaceae; Nymphaeaceae; Lardizabalaceae; Lauraceae; Calycanthaceae; Ceratophyllaceae; Cercidiphyllaceae
Berberis, genus Berberis - large genus of shrubs of temperate zones of New and Old Worlds
Epimedium, genus Epimedium - herbaceous perennials of Mediterranean to India and eastern Asia
genus Mahonia, Mahonia - evergreen shrubs and small trees of North and Central America and Asia
genus Podophyllum, Podophyllum - perennial rhizomatous herbs


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Nandina domestica is often called Heavenly Bamboo or even as Sacred Bamboo This is a suckering shrub that belongs to the Barberry family, Berberidaceae Nandina domestica is often called Heavenly Bamboo or even as Sacred Bamboo.
Plants in the barberry family, such as nandina and mahonia, come to mind, as do rhizomatous or bulbous perennials such as daylily and society garlic.
It is the barberry family and is represented not only by the true barberries but by nandinas, mahonias and epimediums as well.
 
 
 
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