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Tree with pink hanging flower clusters?

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Needtosoundoffandbreathe · 14/06/2025 09:33

Just gone past a tree on a railway embankment with flower clusters like inverted chestnut candles, so hanging down. It could be a huge shrub. Does anyone have any ideas what it could be? I have googled but couldn't see anything that looked like it.

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KnickerlessParsons · 14/06/2025 09:37

Was it wisteria?

cordeliaflynne · 14/06/2025 09:43

Buddleia?

Bridport · 14/06/2025 09:53

I bet it's a buddleia. Railways tracks are lined with them.

Seamoss · 14/06/2025 12:32

There's a red horse chestnut tree

Needtosoundoffandbreathe · 14/06/2025 12:37

The flowers were drooped down, not like buddleia at all, but perhaps there's a variety like that?

Horse chestnut flowers spike upwards, these hung down.

I've only seen lilac or white wisteria.

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Halsall · 14/06/2025 14:09

Could it have been a leycesteria? Their flowers hang down in spikes. It’s a shrub rather than a tree, though, and doesn’t get enormously big - couple of metres-ish?

Tree with pink hanging flower clusters?
Vroomfondleswaistcoat · 14/06/2025 14:22

One of the varieties of Weigela, perhaps? Not really trees, but can get quite big and some varieties have pendulous red flowers, sort of.

Rictasmorticia · 14/06/2025 16:34

Robinia Rouge Cardinal possibly

Needtosoundoffandbreathe · 14/06/2025 16:38

Not a weigela or leycesteria, I'd have recognised those. I do think it was probably a robinia - potentially Robinia Pseudoacacia 'Casque Rouge' by the colour of the flowers. Thanks everyone!

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