Can you help us to identify this?

benchyboo

Emiff6, no flowers and doesn't stay in one place, it seems to spread more each day with the lovely weather we've had!

emiff6

Still looks like some sort of honeysuckle though, as Cte1111 says. If it's summer flowering honeysuckle it won't flower till June/July time, and it is rampant and spreads over everything. If it's been neglected for a few years, all the berries it produces will have cheerfully started to grow as separate plants underneath the main one. If you want to keep it, you won't hurt it by slashing it down to the ground if you want to get rid of other stuff within it. It grows sturdy roots so to remove it you'll have to dig!

JulieM

Could it be snowberry? (Proper name Symphoricarpos)

Casati

It doesn't look like symphoricarpus/snowberry to me...we have LOTS of it. At first glance the leaf shape and colour made me think of some kind of wild/species rose .

Does it have any spines/thorns? (I can't see any)
What do the leaves feel like? Soft? fuzzy? smooth on top but fuzzy underneath? leathery? are they thick and a little fleshy or quite thin and delicate?

meanmarie

Looks familar but can't identify...leaves too rounded for honeysuckle I think...would love to know what it is whenever you learn name.

Marie

greenbee

Looks to me like the evergreen honeysuckle I have. White and yellow flowers occasionally in summer, and grows lots and not very controllably. Possibly Japanese honeysuckle?

katskorner

It looks like Japanese Knotweed to me - google it and compare and you'll see what I mean. If it is then it is very bad news and requires professional eradication as it chokes everything around it and spread rapidly. Hope it isn't but I think you should investigate.

RAS

katskorner wrote: »

It looks like Japanese Knotweed to me - google it and compare and you'll see what I mean. If it is then it is very bad news and requires professional eradication as it chokes everything around it and spread rapidly. Hope it isn't but I think you should investigate.

Not JK - know that only to well, although we have almost eradicated it.

benchyboo

Casati wrote: »

It doesn't look like symphoricarpus/snowberry to me...we have LOTS of it. At first glance the leaf shape and colour made me think of some kind of wild/species rose .

Does it have any spines/thorns? (I can't see any)
What do the leaves feel like? Soft? fuzzy? smooth on top but fuzzy underneath? leathery? are they thick and a little fleshy or quite thin and delicate?

Hi, it has no thorns and the leaves are soft and fuzzy (smooth fuzzy if that makes sense). The leaves are only small, about 1cm.

benchyboo

And good to know you don't think it's Japanese knotweed-I have seen that on tv-scary!