What's this shrub - please?

Oh yes, you did, sorry

I thought it was very apt!

kitty did you see my post above re toothache?

Download the PlantNet app and it will identify it for you.

I would have also suggested a variety of Euonymous. Looking at the root system often gives you an indication of the variety of shrub. There are free apps for identifying shrubs, flowers, etc. Take a photo of the shrub, flower, lichen is identified. Choose a UK site if you want to identify native and recently purchased plants. Good luck.

If you download the ‘PlantNet’ app you can take a photo of the shrub and it will identify it for you.

Dh used his plant finder app and it gave him something random so I had to come to the real experts!!

It is Mountain horopito - pepper tree.

Use a plant recognition app! Can’t remember what it is called but you just take a picture and the plant pops up!

Nandina domestica. I don’t think they look healthy even when they are. Slow growing.

If the leaves are tough and leathery, I think it might be a variety of Elaeagnus.

May be a type of azalea? Those spots are more than likely to be rust spots which would indicate disease. I personally would try and save it by repotting and cutting back but you may just want to chuck the whole thing. In any event DO NOT try tasting any of the leaves!

You can get a plant finder App.

Hi, After peering at the photo, I wondered if it could be a form of Escallonia? The usual forms have green leaves and red, pink or white flowers, but I have a variety with lighter green/yellowy leaves and if I remember rightly from last year, red flowers. Although my green leaved variety has grown very big and I have to hack it back occasionally, the yellowy leaved plant often looked a bit sick and grew slowly. Thinking “it has two chances...... “ as I often do with dodgy plants and shrubs, I chopped it right down last autumn - so it will be interesting to see what happens now. Update - just been in garden - it’s still alive but the leaves are mottled with something so obviously something not quite right. I was going to say it might be a “virus” but thought that would be in poor taste at the moment! Maybe it just needs some fertiliser or something! It’s good to have something to distract us from all the other worries! Keep it up ladies - more plant questions please! Our own Gardeners’ Question Time maybe? x

There is a great phone App called PlantSnap.....you take a photo to identify plants. It doesnt always work but worth a try. Your plant sadly does look a little sick I sadly think though. Good luck

I would say a hebe and they can grow to about 2 foot high and wide with leaves that size but doesn’t look that healthyz

And, he wants to move the bottle brush plant!!

Thank you - that's it!! Phew!!

Quite apt considering dh is a retired dentist!!

Horopito:

'Fresh leaves were also chewed on for toothache'

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Mountain horopito

The leaves are much bigger than the pittosporum we already have.

Ni, chicken they arent!

We have only had it a year and it is a shrub but the height and spread is what l am trying to establish, ExD.

Kitty, are the flowers blue?

If it IS Horopito, you can tell by just the smallest nibble, as it's a bit peppery as Davidhs says. Very useful too for all manner of ills.

Good picture and description here to compare:

www.nutritionalwellness.com/archives/2007/may/05_horopito.php

Is this it?

It looks exactly the same. Leaves very peppery when chewed.

Horopito as previously suggested a medicinal herb from NZ , google it, a close match.

The way the leaves are attached reminds me of a Pittosporum.

A little more information about it might help?