| Description | A medium size graceful shrub producing a prolific amount of purple fruit. |
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| Pronunciation | (kal-i-KAR-pa)(dye-KOT-oh-ma) |
| Plant Type | All Plants, Shrubs Deciduous |
| Hardiness Zone | 5-9 |
| Sunlight | full |
| Moisture | average, moist |
| Soil & Site | moist well drained |
| Flowers | small, pinkish-lavender, in cymes forming small shiny lavender fruit, blooms on new wood |
| Fruit | prodigious amounts of small purple-lavender berry-like drupes, located in the axis of the leaf petiole and stem, lasts for a short period of time after leaf drop |
| Leaves | bronze-purple new growth followed by dark green foliage, yellow in fall |
| Dimensions | 3-4 feet high and wide |
| Maintenance | flowers occur on new wood, prune after flowering |
| Propagation | cuttings |
| Notes & Reference | #01-Manual of Woody Landscape Plants (Michael Dirr), #144-Missouri Botanical Gardens web site (www.missouribotanicalgarden.org) |
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