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Good evening, my mother in law has this tree outside her conservatory and we were unsure what it is? I thought maybe Euonymus Europaeus but the colour and shape doesnt look right? not so sure? any ideas guys? as in the title it has these red seed cases and when i squashed one earlier there was an orange berry like seed inside. sorry i posted in the wrong thread and now not sure how to move it!
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It's certainly euonymus. There's a smallish one with very red leaves in autumn, the name will come to me if no-one comes up with it,
In the sticks near Peterborough
Euonymous europaeus Red Cascade?
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
might be it. Is that small? Someone I used to garden for had a brilliant red one, it was only a metre or so tall and had been there for years
In the sticks near Peterborough
thanks both, i was thinking along the euonymous line but the seed case seems a bit more pink in the europaeus varieties, even red cascade? also the seed cases look like they are more developed into seperate quadrants in the pics of europaeus. maybe its just too early in the season?
E. alatus is another one that's widely grown
In the sticks near Peterborough
Usually gets bigger than that Nut, but it's not huge.
The seedcases open to reveal the orange centre later in the autumn.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
I've got an unidentified euonymus as well. It's got a more open, tree-like shape than this one. Maybe I'll take its pic tomorrow, it would be good to know what it is
In the sticks near Peterborough
That's a smaller one than Red Cascade - it colours up well.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
i think that might be alatus. Been looking at some pics and it's got a curved look to the leaves like this one has
In the sticks near Peterborough
There is also E planipes which I have just acquired as a seedling so no fruit yet, E. phellomanus which is very nice and E hamiltonianus in various forms. Got both of those but no pictures.