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Plant & Weed ID Megathread

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    #1322
    unknownlegend
    Registered Users Posts: 375 ✭✭unknownlegend


    Hi folks

    Can someone help me identify the purple flowering plant in the attached? With the sort of quad-type green leaves. Probably common enough, I took this picture in co. Clare?

    Thanks


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    #1323
    macraignil
    Registered Users Posts: 3,446 ✭✭✭macraignil


    unknownlegend wrote: »
    Hi folks

    Can someone help me identify the purple flowering plant in the attached? With the sort of quad-type green leaves. Probably common enough, I took this picture in co. Clare?

    Thanks


    Is it a hebe?


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    #1324
    unknownlegend
    Registered Users Posts: 375 ✭✭unknownlegend


    macraignil wrote: »
    Is it a hebe?

    Very similar based on a quick image search. I shall do some more research. Thank you very much


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    #1325
    standardg60
    Registered Users Posts: 4,699 ✭✭✭standardg60


    unknownlegend wrote: »
    Very similar based on a quick image search. I shall do some more research. Thank you very much

    It's definitely a hebe


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    #1326
    Harry Palmr
    Closed Accounts Posts: 40,061 ✭✭✭✭Harry Palmr


    It's pretty distinct.

    37AMK.jpg

    37AMJ.jpg


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    #1327
    macraignil
    Registered Users Posts: 3,446 ✭✭✭macraignil


    Harry Palmr wrote: »
    It's pretty distinct.

    QUOTE]


    Is it a Photinia red robin?


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    #1328
    thejaguar
    Registered Users Posts: 737 ✭✭✭thejaguar


    Hi, could anyone identify this tree - and if it looks healthy or not? It doesn't look like it did much growing over the summer months.


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    #1329
    New Home
    Moderators, Arts Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 76,851 Mod ✭✭✭✭New Home


    The peeling trunk makes me think of a birch, but the leaves, even taking into account the state they're in, don't. It could be diseased, but it could also simply have been scorched by the weather. As for the growth, a lot of trees don't shoot up that quickly at all.


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    #1330
    thejaguar
    Registered Users Posts: 737 ✭✭✭thejaguar


    I was thinking possibly a paperbark maple - the trunk seems to look like that.


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    #1331
    looksee
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    thejaguar wrote: »
    I was thinking possibly a paperbark maple - the trunk seems to look like that.

    The leaf would be a better match, though I agree the peeling bark is reminiscent of birch, possibly because it is a younger tree and has smaller branches.


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    #1332
    bored_newbie
    Registered Users Posts: 797 ✭✭✭bored_newbie


    Any ideas?

    tree.jpg


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    #1333
    macraignil
    Registered Users Posts: 3,446 ✭✭✭macraignil


    bored_newbie wrote: »
    Any ideas?


    Is it a type of spindle(Euonymus species)?


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    #1334
    wildwillow
    Registered Users Posts: 1,160 ✭✭✭wildwillow


    Yea I think you're correct Possibly euonymus hamiltonianus. Hardy and attractive for birds.
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    #1335
    [Deleted User]
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    thejaguar wrote: »
    I was thinking possibly a paperbark maple - the trunk seems to look like that.

    Yes, it's a Paper Bark Maple. I think it's fine; probably taking its time to get into its stride. They are really gorgeous trees when they mature.


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    #1336
    rje66
    Registered Users Posts: 1,242 ✭✭✭rje66


    thejaguar wrote: »
    Hi, could anyone identify this tree - and if it looks healthy or not? It doesn't look like it did much growing over the summer months.

    Definitely a cherry of some sort


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    #1337
    standardg60
    Registered Users Posts: 4,699 ✭✭✭standardg60


    rje66 wrote: »
    Definitely a cherry of some sort

    No, it's a paper bark maple as already identified.


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    #1338
    Holy Diver
    Registered Users Posts: 594 ✭✭✭Holy Diver


    Can someone tell me what this is? Growing wild in nearby laneway. Berries look v like blueberries


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    #1339
    New Home
    Moderators, Arts Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 76,851 Mod ✭✭✭✭New Home


    Bilberry, by the looks of it. But the berries should be way smaller than a blueberry. Crush a berry, if it smells like blueberry but more intense and it has red/blue juice, I'd be more confident.


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    #1340
    New Home
    Moderators, Arts Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 76,851 Mod ✭✭✭✭New Home


    Actually, no, it's not. I've just opened the last two pictures.


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    #1341
    Reckless Abandonment
    Registered Users Posts: 1,502 ✭✭✭Reckless Abandonment


    Could be Box leaf honeysuckle . And bind weed:)


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    #1342
    SmartinMartin
    Registered Users Posts: 2,937 ✭✭✭SmartinMartin


    Is it not a sloe?

    Anyway, id for this plant please. There's a few of them on our laneway.

    IMG-20201021-132920.jpg


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    #1343
    TAZ32
    Registered Users Posts: 67 ✭✭TAZ32


    SmartinMartin wrote: »
    Is it not a sloe?

    Anyway, id for this plant please. There's a few of them on our laneway.

    IMG-20201021-132920.jpg

    Possibly Viburnum opulus


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    #1344
    LaChatteGitane
    Registered Users Posts: 790 ✭✭✭LaChatteGitane


    Holy Diver wrote: »
    Can someone tell me what this is? Growing wild in nearby laneway. Berries look v like blueberries

    Sloe


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    #1345
    looksee
    Registered Users Posts: 28,478 ✭✭✭✭looksee


    The blue fruit are sloes (the first pic has additional leaves that are confusing the identification a bit), the red fruit are Guelder Rose / Viburnum Opulus, as TAZ32 has said, lovely hedgerow shrub.


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    #1346
    [Deleted User]
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    Holy Diver wrote: »
    Can someone tell me what this is? Growing wild in nearby laneway. Berries look v like blueberries

    Looks like you took a nibble too.
    Astringent is the word for the effect the have, that drying out of your mouth.


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    #1347
    corks finest
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    New Home wrote: »
    Bilberry, by the looks of it. But the berries should be way smaller than a blueberry. Crush a berry, if it smells like blueberry but more intense and it has red/blue juice, I'd be more confident.

    Sloe?


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    #1348
    macraignil
    Registered Users Posts: 3,446 ✭✭✭macraignil


    looksee wrote: »
    The blue fruit are sloes (the first pic has additional leaves that are confusing the identification a bit), the red fruit are Guelder Rose / Viburnum Opulus, as TAZ32 has said, lovely hedgerow shrub.


    I think reckless abandon got the ID right there with the additional bind weed leaves in the first pic.


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    #1349
    wildwillow
    Registered Users Posts: 1,160 ✭✭✭wildwillow


    Sloe Time to make some sloe gin!!


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    #1350
    NcdJd
    Closed Accounts Posts: 994 ✭✭✭NcdJd


    Hi, was wondering would anyone know the name of the shrub in the attached ?


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    #1351
    Bixy
    Registered Users Posts: 90 ✭✭Bixy


    Euonymus, possibly fortunei , good as coastal hedge


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