#Mid-Autumn Festival Homely #Oregon grape scientific name Mahoniaaquifolium alias Oregon grape or holly leaf barberry, is a flowering evergreen shrub of the barberry family

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Oregon grapes

The scientific name Mahonia aquifolium, alias Oregon grape or holly-leaved barberry, is a flowering evergreen shrub of the barberry family. Native to western North America. Generally about 1-3 meters tall and 1.5 m wide, the pinnate leaves are composed of spiny leaflets, dense clusters of yellow flowers in early spring, and dark blue-black or dark gray-blue spherical berries in summer and autumn, which are very sour.

It can resist summer droughts, tolerates poor soils, and does not produce too many fallen leaves, and there are now many artificial hybrids.

The Oregon grape is the state flower of Oregon and has nothing to do with real grapes, but gets its name because of its color and slightly dusty appearance reminiscent of the grape's purple berry clusters.

Oregon grapes can cause a rash.