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Help me identify this plant

21 replies

Stokey · 05/07/2012 15:54

www.flickr.com/photos/81949522@N07/?uploaded=3&magic_cookie=23de778f12b27069f1f47df2609de681
It is growing all along one fence as well as up the wall. It has round leaves about 1cm long, alternate. No idea if it flowers or not as have just moved in.
Thanks

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slartybartfast · 05/07/2012 15:56

has a got minute little buds which could turn into flowers?

Stokey · 05/07/2012 17:14

Can't see any buds Slarty, just loads of tiny leaves and quite a few dead looking branches. It is massive, must be around 10m long ans sticks out about 1m from the fence. Seems to be growing over quite a few trees.

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hellymelly · 05/07/2012 17:20

its very hard to see it in the pics. I thought honeysuckle maybe, but that would be in flower now and also the leaves look smaller in your plant. Could you maybe take a closer piccy?

hellymelly · 05/07/2012 17:22

Have looked at the pics more, there were some I'd missed. Looks pretty! Some sort of clematis? Is it climbing and clinging onto things?

mistlethrush · 05/07/2012 17:23

Helly - I was thinking lonicera which of course is a honeysuckle version (although no flowers) or even possibly a cotoneaster of some sort?

hellymelly · 05/07/2012 17:30

I did also think about cotoneaster, but it looks rather airy and light, and less stiff.

hellymelly · 05/07/2012 17:31

(yours looks airy, not cotoneaster.)

mistlethrush · 05/07/2012 18:30

I wonder whether there's an airy cotoneaster?

slartybartfast · 05/07/2012 18:55

i was thinking some sort of california lilac looking, but smaller leaves and flowers
bt cotoneaster looks quite probable too

OatyBeatie · 05/07/2012 19:00

I don't know what it is, but it is rather lovely. Are you in an especially warm, frost-free place? It has something of the look of a ficus about it.

OatyBeatie · 05/07/2012 19:04

Could it be this?

beachyhead · 05/07/2012 19:04

I would have said very old overgrown clematis....

slartybartfast · 05/07/2012 19:24

would your neighbours know?

Stokey · 05/07/2012 20:23

The leaves on the Clematises I googled look a different shape, Cotoneaster looks the nearest in leaf shape but mine isn't glossy. It is behaving like a fig, growing over the tops off other trees, clinging and climbing yy Helly. In East London, Oaty, so not particularly warm & frost-free! Neighbours not sure but a horticulturalist lived here about 3 people before us, so could be anything. Garden has definitely been landscaped, has a date palm & a couple of big yuccas.

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mistlethrush · 05/07/2012 21:37

I've just seen it on the BBC2 gardening programme... and remembered the name for a bit but then mnet decided not to respond and the name's gone!!!!

It was a long latin one with lots of vowels near the beginning.Probably about 20 mins in if you have a way of downloading it?

Stokey · 06/07/2012 14:37

I think it is this, en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muehlenbeckia_axillaris, in no way native so may have taken a while to figure out. Posted on gardeners web and an american id'ed it.

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Stokey · 06/07/2012 14:37

Proper link
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muehlenbeckia_axillaris

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OatyBeatie · 06/07/2012 14:42

Oh yes, that looks like it is right. Thanks for posting the update: I am craving this plant now and might buy it online.

mistlethrush · 06/07/2012 16:51

That's the one - on gardening on bbc2 last night.

OatyBeatie · 07/07/2012 09:47

I've bought it now. I might keep in in a container, though. It looks like it is aggressively imperialist in its growing habit.

Stokey · 08/07/2012 19:46

Yes, handle with care Oaty its all along one side of garden, need to get the loppers out.

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