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Plant Identification => Plant Identification Questions and Answers => Topic started by: t5247rb on May 12, 2008, 07:16:21 AM

Title: Wild Flowering Bush/Shrub ident needed
Post by: t5247rb on May 12, 2008, 07:16:21 AM

Hello,

The following flowering bush/shrub was photographed May 2 in the Vosges mountains of Alsace at about 531 m.  Anyone care to take a guess at what it is?

As always, thanks much for your advice,

Regards,
Robert

Title: Re: Wild Flowering Bush/Shrub ident needed
Post by: Lesley Cox on May 12, 2008, 08:48:49 PM

A pear of some kind maybe?

Title: Re: Wild Flowering Bush/Shrub ident needed
Post by: t5247rb on May 12, 2008, 09:17:53 PM

I should clarify that this is photo was taken in the wild.  I don't believe that this is a domesticated plant.

Title: Re: Wild Flowering Bush/Shrub ident needed
Post by: ruweiss on May 12, 2008, 10:16:14 PM

It might be Amelanchier ovalis,the serviceberry.

Title: Re: Wild Flowering Bush/Shrub ident needed
Post by: Maggi Young on May 12, 2008, 10:28:05 PM

Yes, Rudi, it does look like that, also known as the Snowy Mespilus......though I have no idea what "mespilus" means! 
Mespilus is the medlar tree, isn't it?   ??? ::)

Title: Re: Wild Flowering Bush/Shrub ident needed
Post by: Lesley Cox on May 12, 2008, 11:16:49 PM

Well I wasn't so very far out. Rosaceae anyway ??? and even pears start as wild plants.

Title: Re: Wild Flowering Bush/Shrub ident needed
Post by: t5247rb on May 13, 2008, 06:21:11 PM

You guys are really amazing!  What a storehouse of knowledge.  Many thanks for the help.

BTW this plant is called Gewöhnliche Felsenbirne in German which in English literally translated is "common cliff pear".