Plant/Tree ID please

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• Silver surfer Posts: 4,719

  May 2019 edited May 2019

  Did you notice any tiny white  flowers in winter?
  It has the look of a shrubby Lonicera...honeysuckle.
  
  https://www.google.com/search?q=lonicera+purpusii&client=firefox-b-d&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjk3OyyqLLiAhUvSRUIHS0wAMwQ_AUIDigB&biw=1920&bih=944
  

  Perthshire. SCOTLAND .

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• Johnprescott929 Posts: 18

  May 2019

  No white flowers, I bought it bare-rooted last year, I have actually got three, and no idea what it is or how to look after it, though it seems to be flying. I do not remember ever buying a Lonicera, plus there is no climbing/trailing habit. However thanks!

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• Silver surfer Posts: 4,719

  May 2019

  The winter flowering honeysuckles do not climb...or trail.
  They are shrubby.
  If it only went in last year as bare rooted it may flower next winter.
  
  The leaves on your shrub are opposite on a branch which eliminates many shrubs.
  
  Another...
  
  https://www.google.com/search?q=lonicera+fragrantissima&client=firefox-b-d&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwivqYGjrbLiAhUSy6QKHYfYB0cQ_AUIDigB&biw=1920&bih=944
  
  Please keep us posted.

  Perthshire. SCOTLAND .

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• B3 Posts: 27,505

  May 2019

  Snowberry?

  In London. Keen but lazy.

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• Johnprescott929 Posts: 18

  May 2019

  Silversurfer, from the links you have sent, I think your right.  Which is interesting as I don't remember ever buying a Lonicera, and now have three, one bought this Spring. Will keep you posted, and take a better picture. 
  
  B3, I will go look up Snowberry!!
  
  Cheers all.

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• B3 Posts: 27,505

  May 2019

  If it is a snowberry, keep an eye on it. It sends suckers all over the shop.

  In London. Keen but lazy.

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• Borderline Posts: 4,700

  May 2019

  I agree with B3, they look like a Snowberry, Symphoricarpos Albus. The flying comment makes sense.

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• Obelixx Posts: 30,090

  May 2019

  Me too.  Symphoricarpus.  Gets far too happy in my experience and then is a thug.

  Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
  

  "The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."

  Plato
  

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• Silver surfer Posts: 4,719

  May 2019

  Symphoricarpos albus....common snowberry would fit well.
  In the past it used to be called Lonicera alba.
  Opposite leaves. Tiny pink flowers in summer...followed by  white berries.
  
  

  Perthshire. SCOTLAND .

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• Johnprescott929 Posts: 18

  May 2019

  Thank you all! However, if its a snowberry,  I have problem, as I have three, and I have just taken them out of pots, and into the ground, however will reverse that, don't want thugs in my garden. Appreciated, thanks.

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