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28-10-2008, 06:57 PM
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Can anyone remind me what this plant is, I used to know what it is called but can't for the life of me remember! Growing in Berkshire next to a river today. 
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snowberry
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28-10-2008, 07:04 PM
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i only know it as the snowberry bush have one in my garden flowers small and pink popular with wasps sorry not much help really
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That's the one! Cheers guys 
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It can be invasive + suckers readily. Holly Blues occasionally lay their eggs on this plant. |
28-10-2008, 07:39 PM
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yeah it snowberry. its in our garden . the birds don't like the berries though  |
28-10-2008, 07:45 PM
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Originally Posted by agrumpycow  Can anyone remind me what this plant is, I used to know what it is called but can't for the life of me remember! Growing in Berkshire next to a river today. | (The leaves are food for the caterpillars of Death's-head Hawk-moths.
It is a native of western North America, introduced to Britain in 1817)
just read this about the shrub on another site. The fruit are strange looking things similar to marshmallow.
Im glad you posted this thread i was looking at some today and wondered
what it was. I thought it was a probably an escapee from someones garden
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