Plant identification and advice on how to save it

[AConvivialHost]

Anyone able to identify what this plant is, and what may be wrong with it? A lot of the leaves are turning brown and I can't see any evidence of new growth. It's in a west facing border, in clay heavy soil. I would like to try and save it if I can, but I'm a newbie to gardening, so not sure what the issue is and how to address it.

I can't make out what it is but try the plant net app.

Sorry, should have said I've tried various apps, and none of them gave a high % similarity and the plants suggested don't seem to match.

I've tried it with a screenshot but the resolution isn't good enough for it to make out the variegation.

Eunonymous?

When I tried the uncropped version of the photo on Plant Net it said 26% pittosporum, but I don't think that's it.

Is pittosporum barking up the right tree?

Cross posted, there! Are the stems soft or woody?

I think it could be a pittosporum and it could be waterlogged. You could try hard pruning it in May and see if it bounces back.

Possibly @Tangledtresses, as we do have eunonymous in the garden - so they may have planted others - but, again, when compared the leaves do look different

Thanks @PickAChew, the stems are soft.

It does certainly look to me like a species of pittosporum, but not 100% certain.

The browning is most likely caused by 'wind burn' as a result of the bitter cold winds and frosts which we have experienced lately. It will recover when the weather warms up...eventually!

Where, roughly, in the country are you OP? Coastal or inland?

Your photo looks to have been taken from directly above so it's tricky to work out the shape, etc. The leaves look grey/green and aren't waxy or glossy.

My first thoughts were windburn/frost damage tbh.

Very hard to tell from that image. Could be a very sickly variegated Privet 🤷‍♀️

I was going to say Pittosporum or Euonymus, so not much help! Leaning towards Euonymus.

Looks like a pittosporum to me but if it is its not really doing what its supposed to be doing.

I wouldnt get too precious about it. Leave it there for now. Plant around it and rip it out when you run out of space.

Okay, so we're in NW England and inland. We have had some cold/windy weather recently, so hopefully it is just weather related damage and it will perk up as it warms up.

Could it be vinca?

The leaves look too rounded to be vinca.

@MMAMPWGHAP

I was going to say Pittosporum or Euonymus, so not much help! Leaning towards Euonymus.

Same here. There are a lot of euonymus varieties so they can look very different from one another.

It looks rather like frost/wind damage to me.

Don't Euonymus have opposite leaves? The leaves on this one look to be alternate - if they are then that would seem to rule out Euonymus.