The Garden Community for Garden Lovers
 

London, United Kingdom

Can anyone Identify this plant?
I had thought it was mistletoe but it seems not...




Answers

 

Snowberry?

12 Nov, 2013

 

Well it certainly isn't mistletoe.

12 Nov, 2013

 

It is Symphoricarpos (snowberry). It is a suckering shrub so unless you want it to spread you will need to cut off any suckers which appear. Have a look at thepoisongarden website. It is listed there but does not seem to be attractive to humans.

12 Nov, 2013

 

Terrible, terrible thug. It has taken 3 years of weed killer on every leaf as it appears and pouring into the cut stems to get rid of it (we hope) from the roadside verge outside our property from whence it was suckering into the garden and out under the tarmac!

12 Nov, 2013

 

Gosh Owdb. that is some thug!

12 Nov, 2013

 

We got rid of ours,when I was told the berries were poisonous,as we had a lot of children pass on the way to and from school..

12 Nov, 2013

 

We moved to a house that had a lot in the front garden. when we finally got it all out we discovered there was a path down by the fence! I wouldn't have it again.

12 Nov, 2013

 

Used to have it in family garden where I grew up. Never got out of hand because my father would cut it down to the ground each spring - after the birds had finished off the berries.

13 Nov, 2013

 

Good pheasant cover (which is how it came to be naturalised in so many places). I.e., a thug!

13 Nov, 2013

How do I say thanks?

Answer question

 


Not found an answer?