What is this plant called?

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• Perki Posts: 2,527

  October 2022

  Leycesteria formosa or commonly known as Himalayan honeysuckle / Pheasants berry 

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• Dovefromabove Posts: 88,147

  October 2022

  Blackbirds love the berries and consequently they spread the seeds around quite freely. It’s a lovely shrub and the flowers are popular with bees. 😊 

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

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• Heartinthedirt Posts: 300

  October 2022

  I was going to say Callicarpa 'Beauty Berry' as it looks exactly like the one I've got. Either that, or I haven't got what I thought I had and I've got this. Pretty either way.

  It's knowing what to do with things that counts - Robert Frost

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• B3 Posts: 27,505

  October 2022

  Its definitely LF. It you look about, you'll probably find some seedlings this or next year. They're easy to transplant if you want to 

  In London. Keen but lazy.

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• JennyJ Posts: 10,576

  October 2022

  Not Callicarpa - they have clusters of tiny but almost luminous purple berries, not the coloured dangling bracts like Leycesteria. https://www.rhs.org.uk/plants/96060/callicarpa-bodinieri-var-giraldii-profusion/details
  

  Doncaster, South Yorkshire. Soil type: sandy, well-drained
  

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• Silver surfer Posts: 4,719

  October 2022 edited October 2022

  Heartinthedirt 
  Pics below of Callicarpa and Leycesteria.
  
  Leycesteria.1-5.  Callicarpa. 6-8
  
  

  Callicarpa.
  

  Perthshire. SCOTLAND .

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• Uff Posts: 3,199

  October 2022 edited October 2022

  To also add that the Leycesteria berries are edible but be sure to eat only when they are fully ripe and black, if not then they are very bitter. Taste like caramel.

  SW SCOTLAND but born in Derbyshire

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