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Shrub ID please

FourLeafCloverFourLeafClover Posts: 22
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This is growing in an overgrown area that has recently been cleared, not entirely sure what it is so reluctant to remove. Could anyone help to identify this shrub please? 


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  • Pete.8Pete.8 Posts: 11,340
    It looks like a pyracantha to me.
    If it is there will be some vicious thorns on the branches.

    Billericay - Essex

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  • LiriodendronLiriodendron Posts: 8,328
    Hmm.  I wonder if it's the Cockspur Thorn, Crataegus crus-galli...  does it have any thorns under the branches?  The fruit look like the unripe haws on my native hawthorn hedge.  Perhaps @Silver surfer might have a better idea.
    Since 2019 I've lived in east Clare, in the west of Ireland.
  • LiriodendronLiriodendron Posts: 8,328
    You're probably right, @Pete.8 - I haven't looked at a pyracantha for a long time...   :)
    Since 2019 I've lived in east Clare, in the west of Ireland.
  • FourLeafCloverFourLeafClover Posts: 22
    @Pete.8 & @Liriodendron Thank you both for responding to my post. I have looked closely at the branches and yes there are thorns on them. Thank you for your help in identifying the shrub, I shall keep this for the wildlife to enjoy. 

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