Does anyone know what kind of bush/tree this is?
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Lynnelogue
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This grows at my daughters home in Vancouver BC. It stays like this year round and looks like 3 in one variety. The home was owned by Italians at one time and I wonder if its something they brought over with them.
The leaves start as red and then turn green. It stands about 8ft tall.
Spray of flowers similar to lilac but not
Morning glory tangled in shrub (ignore)
14 answers
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It's very difficult to see the leaf shape in your photos, but I'm thinking this may possibly be a type of pieris (andromeda).
Douglas Hunt
on Oct 19, 2013
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I see bi to tri pinnately compound leaves, and pinkish panicle flower. You say red becoming green with the age. It is a Nandina domestica, commonly called Heavenly bamboo.
The French Gardener
on Oct 19, 2013
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Now that the French Gardener has mentioned Nandina, I am going, duh, of course!
Douglas Hunt
on Oct 19, 2013
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A lot going on the the picutres. The leaves in some seem to be too narrow and long to be Nandina domestica. I wonder if there is also some curly willow in there? Would account for the red tipping new growth.
360 Sod (Donna Dixson)
on Oct 19, 2013
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I think it is a form of Japanese maple bush, the top picture anyways
Donna L
on Oct 19, 2013
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Are the branches crooked? Reminds me of a corkscrew willow.
Sheri
on Oct 19, 2013
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That is what I was thinking as soon as I saw the flowers, Nandina. Though the leaves on yours are much more slender and long than the leaves on the many that grow around our home from where the berries are spread from the birds eating them.
Yvonne B
on Oct 20, 2013
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Nandina in Vancouver? Will it live over winter in that climate?
Janette
on Oct 20, 2013
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Oh, yes, and it also has feeder roots. If not controlled it will spread, I'm well aware of this nandina they line my back property line to create a fence from my neighbors yard since we are not allowed fences on the property I live.
Sally
on Oct 20, 2013
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Looks like Nandinia Domestica to me
Katzpawz
on Oct 21, 2013
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It looks like my Nandina bushes that I planted in my yard.
Jinny
on Oct 21, 2013
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Yes its Nandinia compacta..... heavenly bamboo is the common name,,, it may be SIENNA SUNRISE or SIENNA SUNSET., it has red tipped new growth...I have one just like it...there are lots of varieties....I have never heard of them spreading..mine are very compact plants..some varieties grow taller with different colored foliage, depending on locationand amount of sun... especially in the fall......I check out the MONROVIA gardens websight (in California),,,they grow most of them for the nurseries in the puget sound area..... its very popular aaround here..alway used lots in the garden shows too..
Wanda sinnema
on Jun 22, 2014
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I would get the moring glory vine OUT...its very invasive and will kill anything it can strangle..... and keep digging it out everytime you see it pop up again......
Wanda sinnema
on Jun 22, 2014
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I have all the info and have passed on to my daughter. Thank you.
Lynnelogue
on Jun 23, 2014
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