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Plant Identification => Plant Identification Questions and Answers => Topic started by: Gerdk on October 10, 2012, 06:40:12 PM

Title: Unknown small shrub
Post by: Gerdk on October 10, 2012, 06:40:12 PM

Last week I came along this shrub which grows near the sea in the dunes. Probably it is an introduced
species (in N.E. Germany).
Hopefully there is someone who knows what it is.

Gerd

Title: Re: Unknown small shrub
Post by: Robert G on October 10, 2012, 06:59:51 PM

Hi Gerd,

It looks like an Amorpha or something related to it. The leaflets have a greater distance between them than the ones here, but if those are unripen seed pods than that too is familiar. I would think at least the Fabaceae family(?)

Sorry for not being more exact, but it probaly is something that would not survive here.

Robert

Title: Re: Unknown small shrub
Post by: Gerdk on October 10, 2012, 07:08:06 PM

Hi Robert,
Thank you. That was really quick. After googling I think it is Amorpha fruticosa - 'well suited for poor, dry and sandy situations'.

Gerd

Title: Re: Unknown small shrub
Post by: Armin on October 10, 2012, 07:58:07 PM

Gerd,
I thought of Indigofera sp. as a possibility.