Do you have a picture of the flower?

Sorry, no. None of it's in bloom now.

Is this an evergreen shrub? The only ones I can think of that produce "small pink flowers" and grow to that size would be abelia or escallonia and neither would be inclined to grow anywhere in the midwest. And late summer into early fall, one would be seeing flowers on those that have not be sheared or severely pruned.

Sorry again. I'm helping my friend who lives in the midwest. Basically what I posted in the first first is all we know. He's stumped, as am I.

I just asked again and he said "It WILL get small pink flowers". So I assume they are coming this fall.

I've also asked for a leaf closeup.

Can you ask again if it is an evergreen shrub (or not)? And what his growing zone is? Answers to both of those can help to narrow things down.

Looks like Abelia leaves are opposite each other. These are staggered.

Again that’s very blurry, but could it be an Azalea?

So far it looks most like an escallonia, which is a mild climate shrub - for satisfactory results from the forum to be likely you really need to get closer views, more detailed and informative descriptive information from your source.

I'm working on getting more info.

I agree it looks very much like an escallonia (and that fits much of the description as well). But I have a hard time envisioning escallonia doing well anywhere in the midwest. Even here it can taking a beating in a hard winter.....and our hard winters are not very hard :-) To have an escallonia to survive to a height of 15' would be rather remarkable!

He wrote back. Eureka California

Thank you all!

Lol!! Eureka, Ca is pretty far away from the midwest :-) But that makes much more sense for it to be an escallonia than it would be anywhere in the midwest.

Definitely escallonia is the closer view.

A commercially prevalent one this might be is Pink Princess ('Frades').