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Plant ID please?

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WellTidy · 09/05/2020 11:08

I have had this plant in a pot for a couple of years. No idea what it is or even how I got it! It has started to flower for the first time I can remember. Any idea what it is please? It is evergreen and fairly small - maybe 8 inches in height.

Plant ID please?
Plant ID please?
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stella1know · 09/05/2020 11:13

Cant quite tell as the flowers are blurry. Blueberry? Bilberry? (Need moist and acid soil, it has probably been too dry the past years) or berberis or pieris. www.gardenista.com/posts/gardening-101-lily-valley-shrub/ Any of these seem possible?

silverrain22 · 09/05/2020 11:15

The flowers are of the blueberry/bilberry variety. I think it could be a dwarf blueberry.

stella1know · 09/05/2020 11:16

Or a cottoneaster? Missed that out from my wild guessing game Grin

WellTidy · 09/05/2020 11:38

I have blueberry plants and they don’t look the same as this in winter. So I’m not sure about that. I also wouldn’t have bought a blueberry or other berry and not planted it with the others in the sun.

It isn’t thorny like I’d expect a Berberis is to be.

I also have cotoneaster and I am not sure it is that either.

I also thought it was a Pieris and suggested that to our gardener and she didn’t think so.

It is a mystery. I have no idea where it came from or when and that isn’t helping! I will keep watering it and maybe give it a feed now that it is in flower and hope that it continues to flower and stay healthy.

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stella1know · 09/05/2020 14:14

Excited to find out what it is now :)

wowfudge · 09/05/2020 14:17

It's pernettya mucronata, a type of Gaultheria.

WellTidy · 09/05/2020 16:01

Yes! That’s what it is! Thank you.

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wowfudge · 10/05/2020 07:45

It's a pretty plant with the combination of small leaves and bell shaped flowers. The larger leaved variety is used a lot in floristry.

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