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ID please

cmarkrcmarkr Posts: 142
edited May 2022 in Plants
Bought this in the winter labelled Toona sinensis 'Flamingo', which it clearly isn't now the leaves are out. Looking for an ID please, assuming a prunus maybe?
https://i.ibb.co/xmYYQdC/PXL-20220502-133650767-MP.jpg
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  • Hostafan1Hostafan1 Posts: 34,889
    ?
    Devon.
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    edited May 2022
    Looks remarkably like Salix caprea to me … but I could be wrong … it has been known … 

    If we had a clearer photo … Salic capers has alternate leaves but I can’t really see clearly from that pic …

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





  • cmarkrcmarkr Posts: 142
    edited May 2022
    Sorry, will get better photos tomorrow. I agree about the leaves being similar to goat willow (although these are a little larger) but I think the trunk isn't a match, is a rich dark brown with little white spots on it. I am pretty sure they are opposite. I can't imagine garden centres would bother to sell goat willow would they?
  • cmarkrcmarkr Posts: 142
    Hostafan1 said:
    ?
    Sorry, couldn't work out how to include a linked photo, the original is too large to upload and I can't make it smaller on my phone.
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    Not intentionally .., but if one takes root in a pot and the original plant dies … mistaken identity and careful nurture of the Cuckoo’s Child has been known 😂 

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





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  • Balgay.HillBalgay.Hill Posts: 1,089
    edited May 2022
    The leaves are the wrong shape for Toona, and so is the colour. Mine have leaves that resemble Rowan leaves in structure, and are bright pink at this time of year.

    https://www.burncoose.co.uk/site/plants.cfm?pl_id=4169
    Sunny Dundee
  • Silver surferSilver surfer Posts: 4,719
    Not Toona!

    Looks very much like blinking weedy willow ..again.

    Agree with Dove.
     "if one takes root in a pot and the original plant dies … mistaken identity and careful nurture of the Cuckoo’s Child has been known"

    You need to ask for a refund.
    Perthshire. SCOTLAND .
  • cmarkrcmarkr Posts: 142
    @Balgay.Hill definitely not Toona, that's just what the label says and why I bought it (the one at Wisley caught my eye from a long way off so I was pretty pleased to find it on the winter (out of leaf) discount table at £10).

    I managed to get a quick photo (next post) this morning but was in a rush so will return with better photos for IDing.

    I am cultivating a goat willow (self set seedling that I thought I'd bonsai) and am confident this is different, not to say it's not another type of willow though.

    There were about 3 of these fairly identical for sale all labelled Toona so it will hopefully be something worth keeping if a GC had bothered to propogate them.

    I agree, I should seek a refund but it was only £10 and wasn't a local GC so would cost more in petrol and time than I'd get back. Might be worth emailing them though in case they'll send me a Toona in the post though...
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