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Help to identify a plant, please

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  • Silver surferSilver surfer Posts: 4,719

    Rallot 

    OK..new pics are much clearer. Thanks.
    I am still stuck.
    Lets go back to basics!
    Where do do live.
    Is this poor specimen in a pot in UK..where abouts?????

    Dovefromabove ...pretty positive it is not Lonicera sp.
    Perthshire. SCOTLAND .
  • GardenerSuzeGardenerSuze Posts: 5,692
    I also wondered if it was a winter honeysuckle The stems are reddish on fragrantissima.  The flowers are a creamy white with yellow stamens.
    Yours has been in the pot for a long time and it is getting no nutrients from the compost. If it is a Lonicera it would be best in the ground as it wants more moisture. A large specimen in the ground  would have flowered through the winter into spring. Possibly the flowers could fade to a yellowish colour.
    I have worked as a Gardener for 24 years. My latest garden is a new build garden on heavy clay.
  • RallotRallot Posts: 18
    edited April 2022
    I live in Manchester, UK. I got it years ago as a clipping from a friend’s garden - it’s been languishing in that same plant pot in semi/full sun ever since without feed and rarely watered. I’m looking for climbers for my garage wall or at least something to attach to a trellis. And I wondered whether this plant would be suitable if I planted it out - hence my request for an ID. 
    Of course, I could just give it a go and see what happens…
  • Silver surferSilver surfer Posts: 4,719
    I have stolen pics, enlarged them  and have zoomed in very closely .
    Sadly the format used does not allow me to put them back on the screen for all to see.

    It is weird..the dead flower looks just like a dead rose with the calyx folded back.
    I seem to be seeing lots of stamens.

    Crazy cos the leaves do not look right for a rose.
    Perthshire. SCOTLAND .
  • AnniDAnniD Posts: 12,585
    If the poor thing has been in a pot for years, l suspect that the minute it's put in the ground it will be away. It does look a bit honeysuckle like (leaf wise) to me, but l bow to @Silver surfer 's knowledge. 

    I suggest you plant it @Rallot and when it gets going try a couple more pictures. I'd give it a good watering before you take it out of the pot  :)

  • RallotRallot Posts: 18
    Thanks to you all. I’ll do what you suggest, @AnniD , and then report back here - hopefully for a resolution, lol. 
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