Here's a piece of snowberry that's started to get woody, with side shoots (not many leaves on this bit because it was mostly inside the hedge).
The buds are opposite, but there are several places where it's only made a shoot on one side. I think that's maybe what's going on in @clematisdorset 's pic that has what look like opposite compound leaflets - I think the "leaflets" could be young side shoots that haven't turned woody yet. Hard to tell though.
Your pic does show same knobby attachment to stem...obvious on bottom left side twig. Maybe it will turn out to be Symphoricarpos .
@JennyJ oh yes if you do manage to leave a bit of your Symphoricarpos to develop more than usual, we could try to compare at further intervals. It might be the angle, but my leaves seem less round than yours. I had a look today at the leaves close-up & veins are quite apparent on the underside. Most of my stems currently carry 6 to 8 leaves: I am waiting to see if the formation develops over time. I have never pruned my mystery plant, and it is still very airy and the leaves are the most translucent I have seen. I hope mine flowers. Will yours or have you been pruning it so that it won't? Thanks for your help for now!
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@GardenerSuze@Silver surfer I had a look at my Akebia Quinata & it shares the same sort of translucency & even leaf shape a bit, but not the leaf formation on the stem, nor the habit, but I will check the Akebia's family for more info!
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Bear in mind that mine isn't a full shrub, it's bits coming up through the privet hedge from left-behind roots that I can't get at, and they get pulled off frequently so it only ever has thin new shoots reaching for the light. Maybe I'll leave a bit and see how it develops side-shoots.
Thought I saw privet in your 8th pic. All you early pics seem to show pots. Can you drag the pot with mystery plant away from everything else . Get it away from privet, jasmine , bulbs etc. Prune privet down to the ground if it is in the same pot. Give it masses of light.
Did you plant it or could it be a gift from the birds? How tall is it at the moment? Is it woody like a shrub /young tree sapling or soft like a perennial? Does it look as if it is twining? In a few weeks when it is stronger /more mature add further pics to this post. Maybe then it will be obvious........@silversurfer I just checked my 8th photo and it has jasminum officianale to the left, a small lilac in front of the jasminum (the lilac looks a bit like privet at this early stage) then the mystery plant to the slight right of the jasminum officianale ( all growing in the ground). Hopefully I can move the pots soon....I will see if I can give the mystery plant a better chance of light ( it does at least face south albeit in sometimes dappled light). It is 91cm/36" tall and very airy, always has been. I would say more woody but very delicate wood, not as tough as Lonicera or Fuchsia of a similar size. I think the stems/framework stays during winter but I may be wrong. The 1cm diameter trunk does not return to the earth in winter though. It definitely is not twining in habit, but arching.
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@JennyJ oh yes if you do manage to leave a bit of your Symphoricarpos to develop more than usual, we could try to compare at further intervals. It might be the angle, but my leaves seem less round than yours. I had a look today at the leaves close-up & veins are quite apparent on the underside. Most of my stems currently carry 6 to 8 leaves: I am waiting to see if the formation develops over time. I have never pruned my mystery plant, and it is still very airy and the leaves are the most translucent I have seen. I hope mine flowers. Will yours or have you been pruning it so that it won't? Thanks for your help for now!
Mine is just bits growing in the hedge so it'll get clipped when I do the hedge. It's only still there because I can't get the roots out. The original is gone but some of its suckering roots had spread far and wide and into the hedge (it's a thug on my light soil). I remember what the flowers look like though - small, pink-ish, fairly insignificant.
Doncaster, South Yorkshire. Soil type: sandy, well-drained
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Maybe it will turn out to be Symphoricarpos .
This is why clear pics are so very important.
https://home.csulb.edu/~rodrigue/geog330/leafsurfaces.html
Quote above.....
Membranous (thin, soft, may be translucent)
- Symphoricarpos mollis (snowberry): http://calphotos.berkeley.edu/imgs/512x768/0000_0000/0505/1024.jpe
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Never seen Symphoricarpos mollis ..common name creeping snowberry.Don't think it is a match.
https://www.google.com/search?q=Symphoricarpos+mollis&client=firefox-b-d&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiVzbS4lcr-AhWKdcAKHUSECi8Q_AUoAXoECAEQAw&biw=1280&bih=595&dpr=1.5
Mine is just bits growing in the hedge so it'll get clipped when I do the hedge. It's only still there because I can't get the roots out. The original is gone but some of its suckering roots had spread far and wide and into the hedge (it's a thug on my light soil). I remember what the flowers look like though - small, pink-ish, fairly insignificant.