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Help identifying shrub, zone 5, big droopy green blooms?
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Posted by
turquoise 5 (
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Mon, Sep 3, 12 at 17:14
| We recently bought a house with a large unidentified shrub. It has wooly green growth, or blooms, on the end of each branch. Could anyone please help me identify it? Thanks for your help! |
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RE: Help identifying shrub, zone 5, big droopy green blooms?
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RE: Help identifying shrub, zone 5, big droopy green blooms?
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That looks like a vine strangling something.
Be careful if you want to cut it down, wear gloves and long pants. you can get a bad case of poision ivy going into something like that unprotected.
Just chop it down, it's being strangled anyway. |
RE: Help identifying shrub, zone 5, big droopy green blooms?
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| Thank you for the response. It's not a vine though, it's all part of a single shrub. I found some areas not as dried out and the "wooly" blooms are very pale pink at the tips. It looks like something which might have bloomed earlier in the year. It's dried out but not being strangled. |
RE: Help identifying shrub, zone 5, big droopy green blooms?
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| Here's an attempt to show a healthier area with the pinkish tips. |
RE: Help identifying shrub, zone 5, big droopy green blooms?
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- Posted by bboy USDA 8 Sunset 5 WA (My Page) on
Tue, Sep 4, 12 at 16:13
| I think the pink tips are all new leaf growth. |
RE: Help identifying shrub, zone 5, big droopy green blooms?
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| I'm finding these pictures puzzling. The shrub in pics 1 & 2 looks rather like a shrubby honeysuckle, Lonicera, but the growth is atypical. The 3rd picture looks like a different species to me. I am wondering if the strange growth is due to herbicide damage which can cause bizarre growth patterns. Has someone sprayed weed or brushwood killer along the fence? |
RE: Help identifying shrub, zone 5, big droopy green blooms?
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| You have a Honeysuckle (Lonicera sp.). The unusual growth is caused by the Honeysuckle witches' broom aphid (Hyadaphis tataricae). |
Here is a link that might be useful: Honeysuckle witches' broom aphid
RE: Help identifying shrub, zone 5, big droopy green blooms?
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| Aha - that explains the puzzle. I was wondering how the growth got so bizarre. Never come across a witches broom on Lonicera before. Thanks, smivies. |
RE: Help identifying shrub, zone 5, big droopy green blooms?
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| Absolutely witches ' broom development. It's under the radar for most people. |
RE: Help identifying shrub, zone 5, big droopy green blooms?
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| Thanks very much, that's very helpful! |
RE: Help identifying shrub, zone 5, big droopy green blooms?
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| Thanks very much, that's very helpful! |
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