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Identity help needed please!
Could someone help me identify this plant please?
its been a fantastic ever-green with thick waxy leaves - was about 8 ft high but sadly got some kind of disease so i'd like to get a replacement
i did find similar leaf images labeled as 'bay laurel' or 'sweet bay' but when i look at those plants to buy, their leaves seem very different e.g. longer and thinner?
any enlightenment would be much appreciated
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i also seem to remember some of the branches having thorny spikes!
Is it perhaps an Olearia macrodonta?
If the underside is a bit wooly it could be loquat, like mine (Eriobotrya japonica).
Looks like a bay tree to me, def not loquat. Do the leaves smell when you crush them? If it is a bay tree it will probably grow back. My daughter's bay tree doesn't have thin leaves.
It's not Bay. Could be the Olearia that Berghill suggests. I'm not familiar with the loquat.
What were the flowers like before it had its haircut bex?
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Could it be an Eleagnus? It's the young shoots that make me think of that plant.
Elaeagnus ebbingei ?
that wavy edge to the leaf is more olearia
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My first thought was Eleagnus or Bay as suggested by others... not Olearia macrodonta, that has large holly like leaves heavily serrated..
An in focus shot of the growing tips would tell for sure. The eleagnus is quite distinctive. I enlarged them to a blur, no help there.
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