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Produce => Non Edible Plants => Topic started by: eileen on August 12, 2006, 01:08:39

Title: ID's needed please.
Post by: eileen on August 12, 2006, 01:08:39
A friend of mine has asked if anyone can help her identify these two plants.

I think this may be a Rhus. It's over 6' tall.

(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v256/Bluewildlife/faf05667.jpg)


I have no idea what this is!! The flower looks similar to a magnolia but the leaves look wrong.

(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v256/Bluewildlife/cd59f9e6.jpg)

Title: Re: ID's needed please.
Post by: janet h 1948 on August 12, 2006, 21:11:11
The seed head on the second one looks similar to a peony. The first one does look like a rhus.
Title: Re: ID's needed please.
Post by: eileen on August 13, 2006, 01:23:37
Thanks for you reply Janet. I think you may be right about it being a peony!!!  :D
Title: Re: ID's needed please.
Post by: the_snail on August 13, 2006, 02:35:31
Ok

The top one is a Rhus Typhina or (Stags horn Sumach) You where correct.

The bottom on is a ermmmmm

Hope that helps.

PS. Get back to you on the bottom one. Looks like a buddleja leaf and stem. But its not a Buddleja.

The_Snail
Title: Re: ID's needed please.
Post by: ACE on August 17, 2006, 21:50:58
Is the bottom one a tea plant, camellia sinesensis. It looks very similar to one I saw last year. Make a brew and smell it, drink it if you dare.
Title: Re: ID's needed please.
Post by: laurieuk on August 20, 2006, 19:43:58
It is a rhus and I will try and get a photo in a day or so showing how they can spread across the garden. We have some at the edge of the lawn and the suckers are coming up as far as 20 - 25 feet away.   



Quote from: eileen on August 12, 2006, 01:08:39
A friend of mine has asked if anyone can help her identify these two plants.

I think this may be a Rhus. It's over 6' tall.

(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v256/Bluewildlife/faf05667.jpg)


I have no idea what this is!! The flower looks similar to a magnolia but the leaves look wrong.

(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v256/Bluewildlife/cd59f9e6.jpg)


Title: Re: ID's needed please.
Post by: Garden Manager on August 23, 2006, 10:36:47
If it si indeed a Sumach (sp?), then watch out for suckers. Where i lived as a child, a neighbour had one of these and it suckered every where,. Nice plant otherwise, good flowers and autumn colour, but a bit invasive though