Mahonia japonica
(Thunb.) DC.NOT EVALUATEDPublished in DC. (1821). In: Fl. Jap. 77, Ic. Jap. T. 22.
Berberis japonica is a species of flowering plant in the family Berberidaceae, native to Taiwan. Despite the name, it is not native to Japan, though it has been known in cultivation there for centuries. The wild origins of this species have long puzzled botanists, but wild plants in Taiwan, previously known under the name Mahonia tikushiensis, appear most similar to the cultivated forms of B. japonica.
