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Seedling of tree ID

fleuretoile.hunakaimOHKZDPLfleuretoile.hunakaimOHKZDPL Posts: 4
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Can anyone help me to identify this naturally
grown seedling in the mountain of Japan ?  
There are raindrops on the leaves.
I was told that it might be (Japanese) skimmia or pieris.
Any suggestions or help is very grateful.
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  • yorkshireroseyorkshirerose Posts: 574
    It's Spurge -laurel ( Daphne laureola) an evergreen winter flowering shrub usually found at the edge of woodlands.
    https://www.rhs.org.uk/plants/5328/Daphne-laureola/Details
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  • Silver surferSilver surfer Posts: 4,719
    edited January 2021
    yorkshirerose said:
    It's Spurge -laurel ( Daphne laureola) an evergreen winter flowering shrub usually found at the edge of woodlands.
    https://www.rhs.org.uk/plants/5328/Daphne-laureola/Details
    Hmm!
    Daphne laureola.....to quote wiki....
    Its native range covers much of Europe and extends to Algeria, Morocco and the Azores.

    Not at all sure that it would be found as a  naturally grown seedling in the mountain of Japan !

    So sorry, but I am not familiar with the native plants found in the mountains of Japan to say what it might be. Maybe when it gets flowers or berries that would help.
    Perthshire. SCOTLAND .
  • Silver surferSilver surfer Posts: 4,719
    edited January 2021
    Sorry. Ooops ..duplicated answer above.


    Perthshire. SCOTLAND .
  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    Looks like spurge to me too. 
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • Cambridgerose12Cambridgerose12 Posts: 1,134
    I'm reasonably certain it's neither Skimmia nor Pieris (at least none of the ones grown here) as the leaves don't look right. It does have a look of a Daphne, or even a Kalmia...but as the plant is very young and there isn't anything to give scale or context, it's pretty hard to identify this. There's a wide range of things it could be, including tree-sized things.
  • BorderlineBorderline Posts: 4,700
    It looks like Pieris Japonica to me.
  • fleuretoile.hunakaimOHKZDPLfleuretoile.hunakaimOHKZDPL Posts: 4
    Thank you everybody !
    It has the short leaf stem less than 1cm.
    Thick and a little shiny leaf.
    A little over 30cm tall in the moist and part shade place.

    I put up another photo.
    I don't think Daphne laureola grows 
    naturally in Japan.
    The mountain is near Kyoto.

  • fleuretoile.hunakaimOHKZDPLfleuretoile.hunakaimOHKZDPL Posts: 4
    Also there was another little seedlings nearby it.
    It looks like the same tree ?!
    In japanese site, I was told that it's
    Skimmia.
  • FairygirlFairygirl Posts: 55,117
    It looks like a laurel of some kind, but it isn't like any skimmia I've ever seen.  :)

    It would be quite difficult for most forum members to accurately ID that I'm afraid. 
    It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....



    I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    If it they are tree seedlings, the parent tree must be somewhere nearby. Why not see if there's a mature tree with similar leaves?
    In London. Keen but lazy.
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