{"id":2051,"date":"2011-10-13T12:00:30","date_gmt":"2011-10-13T16:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/?p=2051"},"modified":"2012-10-10T20:58:38","modified_gmt":"2012-10-11T00:58:38","slug":"%e2%80%98duet%e2%80%99-%e2%80%93-a-new-variegated-beautyberry-that-is-stable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/2011\/10\/13\/%e2%80%98duet%e2%80%99-%e2%80%93-a-new-variegated-beautyberry-that-is-stable\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Duet\u2019 \u2013 A New Variegated Beautyberry That Is Stable"},"content":{"rendered":"
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'Duet' Callicarpa dichotima<\/p><\/div>\n

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Variegated leaf and white fruit<\/p><\/div>\n

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\u2018Duet\u2019 is a variegated leaf cultivar of white fruited Japanese beautyberry (Callicarpa dichotoma <\/em>‘Albifructus’). It was discov\u00adered at Tennessee Technological University in 2000 by Dr. Gary Bach\u00adman and Mr. W. Edgar Davis. ‘Duet’ beautyberry was released jointly by the U.S. National Arboretum and Tennessee Technological University.<\/p>\n

Leaf variegation is very stable, occasionally throwing a green shoot (which should be pruned off). Growth rate is vigorous, forming a rounded shrub 6 feet tall and 6.5 feet wide in 4 years. The 3 inch long variegated leaves are medium green with a distinctive pale yellow margin.<\/p>\n

Flowers are inconspicuous, mostly hidden by the dense foliage in mid-summer. \u2018Duet\u2019 flowers and bears fruits on new wood at a young age. Small 0.1 inch diameter white fruit (not the typical lilac-violet fruit of most beautyberries) size up in September and persist for 1 to 2 weeks after leaf drop. Several species of birds are attracted to the fruits in late autumn.<\/p>\n

‘Duet’ grows well in an average well- drained soil with moderate fertility. Unlike many beautyberry cultivars, Duet grows in full sun in zone 7 and cooler climates, but does benefit from light shade in warmer climates. It grows well in the Southern Appalachian region (USDA zones zone 6 and 7), but survives in zone 5 if protected. Prune back and re-grow when winter injury has been severe.<\/p>\n

\u2018Duet\u2019 works well as a single specimen plant, or mass planted as a deciduous hedge or background screen in the shrub border.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

                  \u2018Duet\u2019 is a variegated leaf cultivar of white fruited Japanese beautyberry (Callicarpa dichotoma ‘Albifructus’). It was discov\u00adered at Tennessee Technological University in 2000 by Dr. Gary Bach\u00adman and Mr. W. Edgar Davis. ‘Duet’ beautyberry was released jointly by the U.S. National Arboretum and Tennessee Technological University. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[444,657,956,803,778,645,674,774,630,706],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2051"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2051"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2051\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2058,"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2051\/revisions\/2058"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2051"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2051"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2051"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}