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can you ID this bush/tree please

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  • fannyadams
    fannyadams Posts: 1,752 Forumite
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    it looks a lot like a shrub called 'broom'
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  • teddysmum
    teddysmum Posts: 9,533 Forumite
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    I think it is broom, too.
  • chocomonsta
    chocomonsta Posts: 487 Forumite
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    no, not Broom, I have broom.

    this one smells divine, It seems to have just finished flowering and although the leaves look long and slim now I think they are usually fern like. this is a bush tree about 8ft high
  • greenval
    greenval Posts: 596 Forumite
    My winter flowering Jasmine looked like that, is it perhaps some sort of summer flowering one That would explain the scent.
  • REEN
    REEN Posts: 547 Forumite
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    Genista tinctoria? But I didn't think it got that tall.
  • chocomonsta
    chocomonsta Posts: 487 Forumite
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    edited 21 July 2014 at 8:31AM
    greenval wrote: »
    My winter flowering Jasmine looked like that, is it perhaps some sort of summer flowering one That would explain the scent.

    no - on closer inspection, its not this one either ,
  • chocomonsta
    chocomonsta Posts: 487 Forumite
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    Reen wrote: »
    Genista tinctoria? But I didn't think it got that tall.

    No ......what can it be???
  • Cordie
    Cordie Posts: 274 Forumite
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    The leaves are often as helpful as the flowers when trying to identify a plant, maybe you should post a close-up of them.
  • Babafette
    Babafette Posts: 1,530 Forumite
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    Broom flowers are often scented and I would agree that it looks like broom - possibly Genista aetnensis or Genista lydia?
    Time may be a great healer, but it's a lousy beautician.... :/
  • [Deleted User]
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    Hi,

    If not broom then forsythia have the same colour flowers and grow quite large. I believe they can be scented too.
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