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Shrub ID please

10 years ago

last modified: 10 years ago

Would love an ID of this. It's at my neighbors house, and they aren't home to ask.

Sacramento-ish

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Embothrium
10 years ago
last modified: 10 years ago
Perhaps Leptospermum. BUT - there are so many different kinds of shrubs like this grown in California.

It looks like it has seed capsules, if you can show a close up of one of those maybe it will make it possible for somebody here to name the shrub with some certainty. Otherwise you might find labeled examples of same at a nearby garden or nursery.
User
10 years ago
Over here, we sometimes grow Coleonema pulchellum or Diosma ericoides. They look like small conifers or heathers... Your plant has a Coleonema look about it, often called 'Breath of Heaven'. There is a variety grown in your area called 'Sunset Gold'.

See what you think.. it's just a guess on my part...
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Sara Malone Zone 9b
10 years ago
Coleonema.
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Original Author
10 years ago
I thought it looked like Coleonema but it's upright and not very wide of a plant, which made me doubt it. If they are in a narrow-ish border (1-1.5feet wide), will the spread be contained???

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