Shrub/tree i.d.?
Question:Anyone want to take a stab at this one? I pulled it out of my lilac hedge. It gets to about 8 feet tall, then falls and roots on the ground along its branches, and sends up new shoots from there. It likes the shade.
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Answers:
Here is what it is not: A green ash (a common tree) or Virginia creeper (a common groundcover or building vine).
A Virginia creeper, especially can thrive in full sun. And it has beautiful glossy, dark green leaves.
When I saw the berries and looked at the leaves and the stem, my first inclination was that it was some sort of dogwood.
Site on Maine trees: http://www.scarborough.k12.me.us/high/pr...
P.S. Nor is it poison ivy or poison oak.
Got me! Don't recognize it at all.
It may be a flowering dogwood
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Apparently even the experts disagree on what the leaves look like...as in photos
I'm going with the Missouri Conservation
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Photo of poision oak
it has 5 tip/leaves yours looks lik 3 tip
http://www.flickr.com/photos/99991696@n0...
Poision ivy leaf photo
http://plants.usda.gov/java/largeimage?i...
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Below might be the best answer.....
.....Poision Ivy.........
"Leaves of Three"
http://mdc.mo.gov/conmag/2005/03/50.htm...
Poison ivy can be a woody shrub or a vine. As a shrub, it can grow about 6 feet high. As a vine, it can climb 40 feet up a tree.
The best way to distinguish poison ivy from other plants is to look at its leaves and tendrils.
...Poison oak also has three leaflets.
Each has a rounded tip and resembles an oak leaf. Unlike poison ivy, both sides of all three leaflets of poison oak have distinct notches.
it looks like a vine called virginia creeper. especially if it has alot of runners --if it is it will turn reds and orange in the fall and drop its leaves.
Cornus alternifolia - Pagoda Dogwood, The rank growth is from competing with your lilac, if it was on it's own it would look more true to form. RScott
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