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Shrub id

mariegalaxymariegalaxy Posts: 29
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Please can anyone help me identify this shrub? To me it looks like a Ilex Golden King but it has berries now..in June.. Can this happen or perhaps is it something else? Thank you

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  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    edited June 2020
    That looks like a holly ... can’t say which from here ... berries form after flowering which is usually mid to late spring so the timing is fine ... they just ripen and turn red later on ... if the birds haven’t had them. 

    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • mariegalaxymariegalaxy Posts: 29
    Dovefromabove said:
    Holly berries form after flowering so the timing is fine ... they just ripen and turn red later on. 
    Thank you @Dovefromabove .. I just thought it seemed rather early as they are already red in June. Perhaps all the hot weather has brought them early?
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
     Very likely ... it’s turning a lot of people red from the newspaper pics of the beaches yesterday 😂 

    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • FairygirlFairygirl Posts: 55,117
    My holly has lots of berries forming on it - perfectly normal  :)

    Can't remember which one mine is, but possibly Silver Queen.
    I love the fact that the ones called Queen are male, and the ones called King are female :)
    It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....



    I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
  • Rashid.afzalRashid.afzal Posts: 3
    i think it is euonymus japonicus
  • Silver surferSilver surfer Posts: 4,719
    edited June 2020
    Rashid.afzal said:
    i think it is euonymus japonicus
    Not Euonymus with red berries at this time of year.

    https://audaxdesign.org/tag/euonymus/#jp-carousel-10528


    Definitely Ilex ...maybe Ilex x altaclerensis Golden King....common name holly.
    It is very early to have the berries...weird weather?

    Pics below show Golden King...a female holly.
    Perthshire. SCOTLAND .
  • mariegalaxymariegalaxy Posts: 29
    Thank you everyone
  • Loraine3Loraine3 Posts: 579
    Could the berries be left from last year. I had a similar holly which the birds never touched, seemed to have berries all the time ! 
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