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Trouble identifying a troubled shrub
soba3
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There is a shrub in my mother's garden, which has been munched this year. The shrub looks a like a laurel - dark green fairly waxy leaves (6-7cm long), but the young leaves are hairy. There is one flower cluster on it right now.
I'm attaching photos here in the hope someone can tell me what the plant is, and tell me what wildlife larvae may have feasted on it (assuming that it's larva action), so I can look up if it's likely to persist next year and find the right course of action.
Many thanks!
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Viburnum tinus.
Lots of them are being attacked by the same critter.
Wonderful, thanks for a super quick answer!
For anyone looking for the same info:
From a cursory search, it looks like the Viburnum beetle larvae are the culprits in my case.
The larvae go into the soil to pupate late Spring/early Summer, emerge as beetles late Summer, and lay eggs in the stems, which hatch late April/early May.