Help identifying a tree, please.

RAS

Certainly when I saw the piccie my first thought was cotoneaster, but that did not fit with blue flowers?

Zanderman

Looks like a Cotoneaster to me too - and NOT like a Ceanothus.

EmptyPockets

Managed to get the piccie of the 'parent' tree. Will post it tomorrow morn as I'm off to bed now. Neighbour was adament that it was a cutting he took from this tree, and now I've looked at his closer, I can see the blue flowers too.

EmptyPockets

Hmmm, well the pictures of parent tree didn't come out too clear, I'll post them but not sure how much help they'll be

http://i271.photobucket.com/albums/jj152/xcurvychickx/Random%20or%20Forum%20Pictures/tree1.jpg

http://i271.photobucket.com/albums/jj152/xcurvychickx/Random%20or%20Forum%20Pictures/tree3.jpg

There you are... any thoughts?

Davesnave

EmptyPockets wrote: »

... any thoughts?

I think we just need a close shot of the stems/leaves, side by side. That's how I'd compare two things, or something that claims to be the same thing.

Kay_Peel

EmptyPockets wrote: »

Hmmm, well the pictures of parent tree didn't come out too clear,

There you are... any thoughts?

Yes, I can state categorically and with no fear of contradiction that you have a tree. Or possibly an overgrown shrub.

If it's a blue flowered Ceonthus then I'm the captain of England's World Cup Squad.

DrDolittle_2

My money's on ceanothus. Especially from the tree 3 piccie.

delmar39

It's a cotoneaster for sure. It should be getting flower buds on it soon, although it only flowers on wood that's two years old. It'll have berries on it in the autumn.

The reason I know....I've just planted three cotoneaster cornubia trees in my back garden, plus some low growing Cotoneaster dammeri 'Bearberry' and four cotoneaster horizontalis! Which species yours is I'm not sure - you can get small ones, low growing ones and ones that grow as trees, like my Cornubia's. If it's one of these it'll grow 5mts tall by 5mts across. However it looks like a Cotoneaster dammeri 'Bearberry' to me a low growing form. See this link - the leaves look exactly the same as the ones on your photos. http://www.growsonyou.com/plant/Cotoneaster_dammeri

delmar39

Also see these pictures of cotoneaster trees - if you neighbours is a big one then it'll be a big shrub / tree form. http://www.mailordertrees.co.uk/Cotoneaster_Trees.htm

Mojisola

The neighbour's plant can't be a cotoneaster if it has blue flowers but I still think the OP's plant is one.