Other images:

• Overall image of a flowering shrub (late March)
• Flowering bud (late February)
• Close-up of an inflorescence (late March)

Voucher: Kostadinov 078, (URV)

Brief description: An evergreen shrub to 1.5 m tall.  Leaves are pinnately compound, alternate; the 5 to 9 leaflets are ovate-lanceolate, glossy dark-green above, light green below, entire, margins spiny-toothed.  Flowers are perfect, yellow, in fascicled racemes.  Fruits are a blue, glaucous berry.

Campus data: Cultivated extremely rarely on campus.  Encountered in one spot.