Buy Agarita Plants
Long 5 10 cm adorned with needle sharp tips.
Buy agarita plants. It gets about 4 to 6 feet high and wide with very sharp pointed leaves. No regular maintenance is required and the prickly leaves tend to discourage it. Algerita berry also called currant of texas wild currant chaparral berry agarita agrito and mahonia trifoliolata. Mahonia trifoliolata agarita is a rounded evergreen shrub with rigid spreading branches clothed with beautiful gray green trifoliate holly like leaves 2 4 in.
It s evergreen and has no problem surviving our winters or our summers here in central texas. Interesting evergreen plant requires full sun and water requirements are low once established. They give way to edible red berries which can be used to make jams and jellies. Prune only to remove deadwood.
Agarita texas berberis or mahonia trifoliolata small texas native shrub that makes an excellent border or barrier plant due to the sharply pointed tri leaflet leaves. It s an evergreen will thrive both in full sun and part shade has profuse yellow flowers in early spring following by edible red berries very deer resistant and of course extremely drought tolerant. Also known as berberis trifoliata this rounded shrub has leathery spiky holly like foliage though the leaves are more gray green than the deep green of holly. This plant is as tough as it looks and although it thrives in the full sun it also does just fine in a bit of afternoon shade.
Autumn is the best time since it blooms in early spring. Clusters of fragrant bright yellow cup shaped flowers open in early to mid spring. It s thorny and scraggly. Agarita is a tough sell.
Though it can be hard to locate at big box stores agarita can generally be obtained from nurseries specializing in native plants. But its many positive characteristics are well worth considering.