Woody maidenhair-spleenwort-looking shrub

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    wcutler Paragon of Plants Forums Moderator VCBF Cherry Scout 10 Years

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    I've been noticing these shrubs around the West End all summer and I don't think I've seen flowers or fruits. Opposite distichous leaves are elliptic, not pointed tips, on very short petioles. Some of the branches are very long and fern-looking. One of the photos shows desussate branching, with branches standing up at 90 degree angles to the pairs of stems on either side. There aren't so many downward pointing branches, but there were some.
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    wcutler Paragon of Plants Forums Moderator VCBF Cherry Scout 10 Years

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    Thanks, Silver surfer. I'm convinced (and very surprised). That should make this plant Lonicera nitida 'Lemon Beauty'.
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    wcutler Paragon of Plants Forums Moderator VCBF Cherry Scout 10 Years

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    Wow, I would love to see those berries, am sure that I have not seen them. I came across one posting on a UK forum that said it rarely fruits in your country. It apparently rarely fruits here either.
     
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    Michael F Paragon of Plants Forums Moderator 10 Years

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    I've never seen fruit on it in Britain. I've always assumed it is because our summers are too cold compared to what it is adapted to in the wild in China.
     
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    First saw the berries on a huge patch at Westonbirt ..it was just full of them...and looked fantastic.
    This week the bushes in the Tesco car park in rural Perthshire, Scotland have a few...in spite of a cold damp summer.
    I have come to the conclusion ..rightly or not..that they need cross pollination from massed plantings.
     
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    Fruits are seen here in western WA also. As related in this thread not every specimen has them every year.
     
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    Interesting - there'd also need to be multiple clones/cultivars in the planting. The few times I've seen mass plantings, they've been very uniform and I'd assume blocks of just one cultivar - very typical of the lack of vision and interest in UK planting schemes :-((
     
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