Pheasant Berry Plant
Dark green usually with wavy edges and in pairs opposite each other along the stem.
Pheasant berry plant. Small white trumpet shaped flowers growing in pendulous racemes covered in purple bracts. 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. A robust and easily grown shrub from china and tibet this is often planted agriculturally as cover for game birds. Pheasant berry golden lanterns leycesteria is a hot new shrub with attractive clean bright yellow green foliage with hints of red in the new growth.
The berries are a favourite of birds. The berry is like a small gooseberry reddish purple and ripen in october. In mid summer it is covered with 4 inch long pendulous drooping clusters of dark purplish red bracts and white flowers. They love the ripe berries hence the common name pheasant berry.