Where is barberry made?
Barberry is a thorny shrub 1 to 5 meters long. Its wood is red, brown or yellow.
Its leaves are oval with sawtooth teeth and its fruits are red, oval in shape and sour in taste. The root of the barberry tree is called wet air.
Late spring and early summer is the flowering season for the barberry plant, and the yellow buds of the barberry turn cherry red in the fall.
Barberry is native to temperate and subtropical regions of Europe, Asia, Africa, North America and South America.
Iran is the largest producer of barberry in the world, among which Khorasan province and Ghaenat city,
with nearly 97% of the cultivated lands of this product, has 95% of the world’s barberry production.
So barberry is the original fruit of Iranians. In fact, Iranian barberry is a unique species and is very different from other species.
This barberry is mostly cultivated in South Khorasan or Ghohestan region and Zirkuh Ghaen is the main center of its production.
The Iranian barberry cluster is yellow at first. It then turns red when ripe and gradually turns burgundy.
It is a prickly shrub 1 to 3 meters high and has fragile branches.
The height of some of its specimens reaches 6 meters in favorable environments.
The plant has one base and its flowers are bisexual, meaning that each flower has both male and female organs.
The barberry flower is compound and consists of three pieces, which are arranged in two circular rows.
There are 6 barberry flags that are placed in 2 rows of 3.
The leaves are leathery and do not have a high level of stem or fin. These leaves are smooth in some varieties and toothed in some.
The barberry plant is prickly and its thorns are formed by the transformation of the leaves,
which become wider at the junction of the thorns with the branch.