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Growing => Identification => Topic started by: mojocafa on June 21, 2018, 06:43:26 pm

Title: What's this?
Post by: mojocafa on June 21, 2018, 06:43:26 pm

Can anyone identify ? It has a little thorn

Title: Re: What's this?
Post by: Rob73 on June 21, 2018, 08:50:09 pm

Is it a japonica, Kerria variety

Title: Re: What's this?
Post by: mojocafa on June 21, 2018, 09:31:38 pm

It certainly looks like the leaves, cheers  :thumbsup:

Title: Re: What's this?
Post by: doganjo on June 21, 2018, 10:18:21 pm

I have a Kerria but it doesn't have any thorns

Title: Re: What's this?
Post by: arobwk on June 21, 2018, 10:46:26 pm

I have no idea what this plant is, but it looks interesting:  what is its purpose?  Is it merely ornamental or does it produce edible fruit?

Title: Re: What's this?
Post by: Terry T on June 22, 2018, 01:46:21 pm

I would suggest it is in the genus Rubus - like the blackberry.

Title: Re: What's this?
Post by: ddangus on July 02, 2018, 04:06:30 pm

Slightly tricky to judge from the pictures as they are not terribly focussed. But agree with Terry T, some kind of rubus does it have pink flowers and yellow raspberry looking fruit ? As I guess it could be salmon berry ( Rubus spectabilis) which is an garden escape in the NE of Scotland and can behave like a weed. In Kerria japonica the stems / twigs are green and thornless and yellow pompom flowers will appear in spring.