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What is this plant?

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LeoEisor · 15/06/2023 19:52

I absolutely love the smell of this plant and I'm unsure of what it is? I'm trying to find it so I can search for a perfume or fragrance in the same scent! Thank you

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BerfyTigot · 15/06/2023 20:13

Could you post a picture of the leaves and how they're held on the stem - ie are they opposite each other or alternative on each side up the stem?

BunnyBettChetwynnd · 15/06/2023 20:14

I believe it's Choisya ternata which is also known as Mexican Orange Blossom. The scent is beautiful.

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LeoEisor · 15/06/2023 20:28

BerfyTigot · 15/06/2023 20:13

Could you post a picture of the leaves and how they're held on the stem - ie are they opposite each other or alternative on each side up the stem?

Hello sorry I only took these photos but I smell this scent quite frequently when I walk in the countryside! I wish I could bottle it up

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BerfyTigot · 15/06/2023 22:56

Oh ok. If you do go back there ever get a pic!
For what it's worth it's got a lot more flowers than any choisya I've ever had!

Getdowngetdown · 15/06/2023 22:57

Looks like elderflower

BerfyTigot · 15/06/2023 22:57

But the leaves do look similar so maybe it is. Get thee to a garden centre at the weekend and have a look.

GrannyAchingsShepherdsHut · 15/06/2023 23:01

Is it not an elderflower? More blossom than usual, admittedly, but looks very like elderflower to me?

Are the flowers on a sort of 'hand' of stalks that comes from a central one? Like a circular clump?

GrannyAchingsShepherdsHut · 15/06/2023 23:04

If it is elderflower, I have very good news for you OP re. bottling it. Or indeed eating it. Or drinking it. Hell, you can probably bath in it

Getdowngetdown · 15/06/2023 23:15

Yes, you could make some elderflower cordial / there’s a recipe on bbc good food website

longtompot · 15/06/2023 23:37

Getdowngetdown · 15/06/2023 22:57

Looks like elderflower

I think so too. It does smell divine😊

ComeIntoTheGardenMaud · 16/06/2023 00:21

I don’t think it’s Choisya (shrub is the wrong shape and you’d be unlikely to encounter it on country walks if it wasn’t in gardens) or elderflower (as elderflower doesn’t have drooping stems and the flowers would be in large round clusters). Must put my thinking cap on …

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LeoEisor · 16/06/2023 06:08

I'm going to head back today when I go to the train station as it's in our community garden there. It does look like elderflower when I Google I will get another photo!

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LeoEisor · 16/06/2023 07:21

After googling elderflower it looks like it may be hawthorn?

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Geneticsbunny · 16/06/2023 08:04

It isn't elderflower because the first picture shows the way the flowers grow on the tree/shrub and elderflower grow in hand shaped things like @GrannyAchingsShepherdsHut says not sort of plumes like you have.
Unlikely to be Hawthorne. It usually flowers in may and doesn't smell of much. Ours has been over for weeks and I am in northern England. Also the close up of the flowers don't look like Hawthorne.

MereDintofPandiculation · 16/06/2023 09:42

Don’t think it’s hawthorn, petals too narrow. It would help if you were to post a picture of the leaf

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