Nandina domestica.

Botanical name: 

Nandina domestica Thunb. Berberideae. Sacred Bamboo.

An evergreen shrub of China and Japan. This species is extensively cultivated for its fruits, which are red berries of the size of a pea.


Sturtevant's Edible Plants of the World, 1919, was edited by U. P. Hedrick.