Buy Agarita Plants
Algerita berry also called currant of texas wild currant chaparral berry agarita agrito and mahonia trifoliolata.
Buy agarita plants. Agarita requires excellent drainage in clay soils. 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 thorny and scraggly. Interesting evergreen plant requires full sun and water requirements are low once established.
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. It gets about 4 to 6 feet high and wide with very sharp pointed leaves. Autumn is the best time since it blooms in early spring. Long 5 10 cm adorned with needle sharp tips.
They give way to edible red berries which can be used to make jams and jellies. But its many positive characteristics are well worth considering. No regular maintenance is required and the prickly leaves tend to discourage it. Clusters of fragrant bright yellow cup shaped flowers open in early to mid spring.
Mahonia trifoliolata agarita is a rounded evergreen shrub with rigid spreading branches clothed with beautiful gray green trifoliate holly like leaves 2 4 in. Though it can be hard to locate at big box stores agarita can generally be obtained from nurseries specializing in native plants. Prune only to remove deadwood. 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.
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. Agarita is a tough sell.