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Does somebody know this little shrub?


Does somebody know this little shrub?

I picked it up from a rock on the northern Sicily shores.
Planted it in my garden 6 years ago. I thought, it died in those cold winters here. This year, probably due to favor climate, the shrub appeares under my lavenders and is beautiful.



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bjs
Bjs
 

flowers look like Hypericum but can't really see the leaves.
same applies with the Acer needs a close up for anyone to have a chance of identity

6 Jun, 2015

 

OK, Brian, I uploaded closer photo of the acer, with details of its leaves. Just for comment, leaves are green in the spring, turn into beautiful pin-orange at the end of summer and then into dark purple in the autumn.

7 Jun, 2015

 

Katarina, this plant is Hypericum olympicum. Native to Greece (I believe.)

8 Jun, 2015

 

Thank you very much, Klahanie! Wow. It is from Sicily! But Greeks settled in ancient times in the South of Sicily, I read. Maybe somebody had seeds on the shoes :-)

9 Jun, 2015

 

:-)

9 Jun, 2015



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