Common name
English: Beauty berry
German: Chinesische Schönfrucht
Mandarin: 紫珠
Classification
Kingdom: Plantae (2715)
Phylum: Tracheophyta (2630)
Class: Magnoliopsida (2217)
Order: Lamiales (199)
Family: Verbenaceae (14)(family description)
Genus: Callicarpa (1)
Epithet: bodinieri H.Lév. (1)
Synonyms: Callicarpa feddei H.Lév., Callicarpa giraldiana Hesse, Callicarpa glandulosa H.R.Fletcher, Callicarpa seguinii H.Lév., Callicarpa tonkinensis Dop, Callicarpa tsiangii Moldenke
bodinieri => in honor of French botanist and missonary Emile Marie Bodinier (1842-1901) working in China
giraldiana => in honor of Giuseppe Giraldi (1848-1901), Italian missionary in Shensi, China
glandulosa => full of glands, glandular
tonkinensis => from the area of the Gulf of Tonkin, Northeastern Vietnam
Characteristics
Climate: tropical
Flower colour: pink