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what shrub is purple flowered beauty?

ChrikChrik Posts: 7

this loose limbed shrub has small beautiful purple flowers and fairly small simple green leaves, and brown/slightly red bark. 

Is it a callicarpus/beautyberry variety-unpollinated? and therefore unberried.?

It arrived in the garden unbidden, in Ireland.

What can it be?

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  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,139

    Can we have a close up of the flowers and another of the leaves please? image


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  • ChrikChrik Posts: 7
    Will send better pics fairly soon,thanks
  • nutcutletnutcutlet Posts: 27,445

    2 questions in addition to more pics.image

    Are those flowers on bare branches?

    When was the picture taken?



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  • Pete.8Pete.8 Posts: 11,340

    Beautiful - can't see the pic very well, but looks like Chinese Meadow Rue 

    see here http://www.rhs.org.uk/Plants/18077/Chinese-meadow-rue/Details

     


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  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,139

    The description of 'small simple leaves' doesn't sound to me like a thalictrum aka meadow rue - looking forward to more pics image


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  • nutcutletnutcutlet Posts: 27,445

    Not a lot of bark on a thalictrum eitherimage



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  • punkdocpunkdoc Posts: 15,039

    I dont know what it is, but I am sure it is not a Callicarpus. Flowers on these are really insignificant, you can only see them if you are right up close.

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  • ChrikChrik Posts: 7

    1st photo taken July 22nd 2014. very largely bare-branched.

    I enclose photos of:

    branch end with some flowers not fully opened like beautiful little balloons.

    leaves.

    base of stem: also showing what seems to be a daughter-plant very near the said stem but with white flowers that have a purple tint when seen with the naked eye.

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  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,139

    The first of those three has a look of clematis about it at that angle, but it's hard to tell without an indication of scale etc image


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  • ChrikChrik Posts: 7

    thanks, but I don't think it's a climber.

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