The pictures show a bush in Broxham, Kent, England in October 2025. The large bush is right alongside a rough unmade road, and is splattered with mud from puddles, thrown up by cars, and look rough but its small flowers smell divine! Any I.D. Please Thank you
It is an Elaeagnus sp. It was originally one with a variegated leaf. It has now reverted to plain green leaves. See your pic above trimmed. Leaves show a green edge and yellow centre. I suspect it is Elaeagnus pungens maculata...(it rarely produces berries in UK) The clue is in scent and the speckles on the leaves, stems and flowers...see my pics below. Even the berries on Elaeagnus are speckled. https://www.rhs.org.uk/plants/97434/elaeagnus-pungens-maculata-(v)/details https://www.treesandshrubsonline.org/articles/elaeagnus/elaeagnus-pungens/ Below are the attractive speckled berries of Elaeagnus parvifolia.
I hope you took a variegated piece. Otherwise it will be the plain green Elaeagnus pungens. Variegated shrubs are slower to grow. Plain green shrubs always grow faster. In the case of reversion the green grows so fast that the shrub can be swamped by the plain green leaves and sadly lose all variegation.
