RE: New House, New Plants to ID

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• Subject: RE: New House, New Plants to ID
• From: Nicholas Turland N*@mobot.org
• Date: Fri, 27 Dec 2002 08:48:45 -0600

Cyndi,

Some thoughts on your mystery plants...

> Cherry Tree or ???
> http://consultclarity.com/gardening/cherry.html

The upright clustered branching, leaf shape, red fall color, and mottled fruit leave me in little doubt that this is a Bradford pear, Pyrus calleryana "Bradford." I have one in front of my house here in St. Louis. The fruit are always tiny and inedible, but the fall color is superb, as is the white blossom in spring. The down side of Bradford pears is their brittleness. All the main branches tend to converge at the apex of the trunk, and this seems to be a weak structure because branches may break off in storms.

> Berry Bush
> http://consultclarity.com/gardening/berrybush.html

This looks like a privet, Ligusticum sp. The narrow leaves look like those of the European species, L. vulgare, but I don't know if that's grown/introduced in California, or if there's a native species. I believe the berries of privet are poisonous.

> Ivy
> http://consultclarity.com/gardening/ivy.html

This is a Senecio species (family Compositae), but I'm not sure which. It looks a bit like S. petasitis.

Enjoy your new garden!  Nick

Nick Turland
St. Louis, Missouri
USDA Zone 6
(snow and 21F)

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