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Viburnum plicatum
6 feet tall with multiple woody stems. Leaves are opposite, four or more per node- they are velvety to the touch. Flowers are white and yellow.
Garden bed.
Spotted on Apr 5, 2012
Submitted on Apr 5, 2012
3 Comments
Oh, these leaves have too many teeth and veins to be river birch, I think. Thanks for the guess though!
Thanks for the welcome, Karen. I've been researching this some more and I'm starting to think it's a Prunus... maybe some kind of cherry or hawthorn? It's definitely multi-stemmed. There are no thorns. There are also no fruits or flowers to give me any hints. My mother thinks they're weeds, but not me. There are four along the western wall of the house, evenly spaced about four feet apart, and I can tell they've been pruned before, probably a couple years back. It's storming now, but I'll get some more pics up tomorrow.
Welcome to Project Noah Ryan!
This looks like a birch leaf - maybe River birch if the plant is multi-stemmed, but it is difficult to be certain without seeing photos of the whole plant. It would help us to ID it if you could take some more photos including one of the main stems & of a branch so we can see the arrangement of the leaves.
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