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Plant Identification => Plant Identification Questions and Answers => Topic started by: JohnnyD on July 04, 2017, 05:45:28 PM

Title: Had it for years and still can't remember its name!
Post by: JohnnyD on July 04, 2017, 05:45:28 PM

Please, PLEASE, somebody tell me what this shrub is!!!!
JohnnyD

Title: Re: Had it for years and still can't remember its name!
Post by: Graham Catlow on July 04, 2017, 07:54:28 PM

Maybe a white berried form of Leptecophylla juniperina

Title: Re: Had it for years and still can't remember its name!
Post by: shelagh on July 04, 2017, 08:14:42 PM

John I keep telling you it is Margyricarpus pinnatus the Pearl Berry from Chile and the Andes.

Title: Re: Had it for years and still can't remember its name!
Post by: JohnnyD on July 05, 2017, 08:04:47 AM

Yes Shelagh, but I can ,t remember long words!!!
Cheers,
J. Mi

Title: Re: Had it for years and still can't remember its name!
Post by: ChrisB on July 05, 2017, 08:30:54 AM

Yup, had it ages but it's long gone now. Never did see the flowers ..

Title: Re: Had it for years and still can't remember its name!
Post by: Palustris on July 05, 2017, 10:10:12 AM

One of those plants that moves around the rock garden for us. Seems to die off where it is, but seed itself elsewhere. Never seen flowers on it either, but it does berry well.
Oh and I can never remember the name either and the label disappears along with the plant.

Title: Re: Had it for years and still can't remember its name!
Post by: shelagh on July 05, 2017, 02:03:39 PM

Eric I can remember the name of the plant even though it's long gone.  I think it was one of our early puchases and it has stuck.  Pity some of the later ones haven't :D

Title: Re: Had it for years and still can't remember its name!
Post by: fermi de Sousa on July 06, 2017, 01:07:10 AM

We got one many years ago and it spread hugely across the rock garden, smothering some more delicate plants! After it was removed seedlings kept coming up but we try to keep them under control. The berries are certainly the best feature which is why it is allowed to persist. I live in hope of finding a spot where it can grow nicely without interfering with its neighbours,
cheers
fermi

Title: Re: Had it for years and still can't remember its name!
Post by: JohnnyD on July 17, 2017, 10:05:35 AM

Said to be edible - so I tried it!
Thick skin, large seed, no flavour, decided not to make a pie. :P
JohnnyD

Title: Re: Had it for years and still can't remember its name!
Post by: Maggi Young on July 17, 2017, 11:11:11 AM

Quote from: JohnnyD on July 17, 2017, 10:05:35 AM

Said to be edible - so I tried it!
Thick skin, large seed, no flavour, decided not to make a pie. :P
JohnnyD

  Pleased you are fit enough to make the report, Johnny!  Testing such things can be a tad risky!