Nandina domestica 
Natwe of Japan. 
Nat. Order: BERBERIDEA. Tribe: BERBEREA. 
147 (1784) ; 
Nandina domestica, Thunberg, “ Fl. Jap.’ 
Bot. Mag. t. 1109 (1808). 
A native of both Japan and China. Nandin is the 
Japanese name. A most beautiful and graceful shrub, which 
requires to be planted in a sheltered situation to do it justice, 
in loam, leaf soil and well-rotted manure. The flowers are 
white, and are in large panicles, succeeded by a crop of berries 
which in its native country are said to be red, but here are of a 
paler colour. It is very interesting and ornamental in Spring, 
the young foliage being ofa delicate rosy tint. It usually flowers 
in Spring, but sometimes after a fine Autumn it flowers in 
Winter, which prevents its setting its fruit. It is well worth 
a choice place, if only for its distinct and graceful foliage. 
This is the sacred bamboo of the Japanese, though it is not a 
bamboo, nor the least like one. It was introduced about one 
hundred years ago, and for many years was cultivated as a 
greenhouse shrub. 
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