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Looking to identify this large flowering shrub

7 years ago

This is at the edge of a bank parking lot here in my town in northeast Georgia. Here are two pictures from spring (April) and one made recently (early winter). Can anyone tell me what this is?




Comments (21)

  • 7 years ago

    It could be...but I'm thinking the leaves don't look much like those.

  • 7 years ago

    I also don’t think it’s a Viburnum which has leaves that are opposite on the stem. That typically creates a visual pattern from a distance which I don’t see here, but a photo that shows clearly a branch and attached leaves would clear that up.

    Viburnums also have buds with fuzz rather than scales, and yours appear to have scales in the last photo.

    Donnie thanked NHBabs z4b-5a NH
  • 7 years ago
    last modified: 7 years ago

    Some sort of prunus? It’s not a Heteromeles arbutifolia, right?

    Donnie thanked User
  • 7 years ago

    Stranvaesia?

    Donnie thanked gardengal48 (PNW Z8/9)
  • 7 years ago
    last modified: 7 years ago

    You can eliminate Viburnum since the foliage is alternate, not opposite. It's something in the Rosaceae. I've never seen Heteromeles arbutifolia. Could that be it? Or perhaps Photinia?

    Donnie thanked floral_uk z.8/9 SW UK
  • 7 years ago
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    I have never seen toyon outside of California.....not even here along the upper west coast where a lot of CA natives are well adapted........but I guess it is possible :-) I am still leaning towards Stranvaesia/Photinia.

    Donnie thanked gardengal48 (PNW Z8/9)
  • 7 years ago

    Thanks for the responses, guys. Googling photos, I'm not sure it's any of the above. The leaves look different. The evergreen leaf does resemble a great deal the cherry laurel which we have a lot of around here, but it's not that, due to the berries.

  • 7 years ago
    last modified: 7 years ago

    Could you zoom in on a picture of a leaf and a picture of a berry? The uploading feature on Houzz results in a drastic reduction in resolution. All we can see is this...

    ... which isn’t good enough to tell features clearly.

  • 7 years ago

    Not Heteromeles (toyon) but looks to be Rosaceae for sure.

  • 7 years ago
    last modified: 7 years ago

    Could it be Enkianthus? That stuck in my mind, but I don't know if it makes berries.

  • 7 years ago
    last modified: 7 years ago

    I'm viewing on an iPad and can zoom in excellently. But I'm none the wiser. Definitely Rosaceae and definitely not Enkianthus.

  • 7 years ago

    Photinia of some sort?

    Donnie thanked Sara Malone Zone 9b
  • 7 years ago

    Photinia/Stranvaesia was suggested above.

  • 7 years ago
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    Looking around a bit further, I'm thinking maybe Chinese Photinia? Whatever it is, it is certainly beautiful and apparently thrives with little care in this area. The only other Photinia I'm familiar with is the red tip—those were wildly popular around here many years ago, but they were all destroyed by a fungus. So if this is a type of Photinia, it must be resistant to that.

  • 7 years ago

    Thx did not catch that Stranvaesia was the same as Photinia.

  • 7 years ago

    Photinia serrulata looks good.

  • 7 years ago

    Yes, I'm almost certain now that's it. Thanks.

  • 7 years ago

    Looks like Fraser photinia to me. Photinia serratifolia (P. serrulata) is so named for its coarsely toothed leaf margins. Something I am not seeing on this plant, which also looks structurally like Fraser photinia otherwise.

    Donnie thanked Embothrium
  • 7 years ago

    Looks like Chinese Photinia?

  • 7 years ago
    last modified: 7 years ago

    Best way to finalize particular kind of photinia at this point would be to compare representative clipped samples of it with other plants elsewhere of known identification. As might be found at arboreta, botanical gardens and college campuses for instance.

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