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Shrub Identification Please

rebeccasophia5555555rebeccasophia5555555 Posts: 15
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Hello All. I'm not very knowledgeable on shrubs, especially during the winter. Could anyone kindly please help me ID the below? The leaves are evergreen and ovate. The shrub is around 1m x 1m. It's covered in dark purple glossy berries as you can see. Thanks
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  • MarranMarran Posts: 195
    Hypericum :-)
  • rebeccasophia5555555rebeccasophia5555555 Posts: 15
    Thank you so much
  • Joyce GoldenlilyJoyce Goldenlily Posts: 2,933
    It looks more like clerondendron fargessi to me. 
  • FairygirlFairygirl Posts: 55,117
    Not Hypericum. 
    The Clerodendron looks a good shout, especially with those calyces, but a better photo of the foliage always helps. They're not usually evergreen though, but many shrubs have held onto foliage due to milder weather.
    Did you see flowers earlier?
    It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....



    I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
  • UffUff Posts: 3,199
    The stems look like honeysuckle to me. It is possible to have a picture of the whole shrub please @rebeccasophia5555555
    SW SCOTLAND but born in Derbyshire
  • rebeccasophia5555555rebeccasophia5555555 Posts: 15
    Hi everyone. I checked the suggestion from @Marran and the plant looks exactly like 
    Hypericum Androsaemum, over the winter period. The leaves are kind of semi evergreen, it has lost some but some many remain towards to top of the shrub. Thank you all!
  • Joyce GoldenlilyJoyce Goldenlily Posts: 2,933
    Clerendendron have clusters of small white flowers and the berries are bright turquoise with red calyx before turning black. It can grow to a large shrub and it just about semi evergreen. If the stems, leaves etc. are bruised it smells horrible. Birds do not take the berries, presumably not to their taste.
    It is the stems and bark which make me think your plant is not a hypericum which is a much smaller sub shrub that has fairly large, bright yellow, buttercup type flowers in the summer.
    A case of wait and see.
  • GardenerSuzeGardenerSuze Posts: 5,692
    The dark leaved hypericums in my midlands garden always keep their leaves  through the winter. I cut them down to a strong shot further down the stems late March. They are prone to mildew in my garden so this ensures they have a clean start .I then mulch and feed . The large leaf in the photo looks a little rounded for hypericum so I can understand that there is some confusion.
    I have worked as a Gardener for 24 years. My latest garden is a new build garden on heavy clay.
  • Loraine3Loraine3 Posts: 579
    I would say it's hypericum, needs cutting to the ground now and it will produce new stems with flowers and berries. The flowers are fairly nondescript but the pinky green berries are often used in florist bunches during the summer.
  • rebeccasophia5555555rebeccasophia5555555 Posts: 15
    Thank you @Loraine3. I agree - I just watched a video on Youtube from the excellent John lord and he went as his very hard. I think I will do the same - just as you suggest!
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