Shrub id

[MereDintofPandiculation]

Sorry, no picture!

Arching steams with simple oval leaves in opposite pairs, and pairs of tubular creamy yellow flowers about an inch long. So far, looking good for a shrubby honeysuckle (I think the flowers appeared out of a pair of bracts, which isn't so good for a honeysuckle.

But - the seed was a pair of black berries, in the centre of a pair of long bright red bracts with shiny black bases looking exactly like a clianthus.

But obviously not a clianthus because it had paired simple leaves, not compound pinnate leaves.

Does it strike a chord with anyone?

Is it Solomon's Seal?

The description of the seeds makes me think of Leycesteria, Pheasant Berry. But the description of the flower doesn’t sound like it.

Is it Solomon's Seal? No, much taller, stems about 6ft. And the flowers yellow, not white. And Solomon's Seal doesn't have the showy bracts.

The description of the seeds makes me think of Leycesteria That's exactly what I thought it would be when I saw the growth habit. But of course the flowers were completely different.

And the seeds weren't dangling in a sort of catkin like leycestria, the bracts were in the same plane, just the two of them, so it was an elongated oval with the black at the centre.

Got it!

Lonicera involucrata, "twinberry honeysuckle"

The fruits with their red bracts are here:
www.watershednursery.com/nursery/plant-finder/lonicera-involucrata/

And here are the flowers:
www.plantpref.co.uk/shrubs/lonicera-involucrata-var-ledebourii.html

After sorts of carefully crafted searches involving "honeysuckle" or "lonicera", I finally got it on a simple search of: shrub "red bracts"