[Sca-cooks] Barberries

[James Prescott]

At 10:38 -0400 2004-06-10, KristiWhyKelly at aol.com wrote:
> Does anyone know what barberries were in period?  Are they the berries from 
> the barberry bush that we see in everyone's front lawn?  Or are they something 
> different?


I can answer half of this.  The European barberry is _Berberis vulgaris_.

Now if someone else can determine the species of the bushes on your
front lawns....


Thorvald