Mystery Shrub

[canadiantreeman]

I give up! I've been trying to figure out the name of this danged shrub for years. I'm sure Paul is laughing at me...help!

 

[sotc]

Looks like dogwood

 

[canadiantreeman]

With the exfoliating bark?? This damn shrub drives me nuts!!

 

[Burnham]

Creek dogwood, we call it here...not the same as western dogwood, but same family, I believe.

 

[brendonv]

Seven-son flower tree?

 

[sotc]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cornus_sericea

 

[Burnham]

That's it, for sure.

 

[canadiantreeman]

Leaves and bud arrangement seem to confirm dogwood id, but I'm not sure about the species. This shrub has pink flowers...and that link mentions nothing about exfoliating bark.

 

[Paul B]

LOL repeat after me.... MADBuckV

opposite paired buds usually =
Maple
Ash
Dogwood
Buckey (Aesculus
and ?
Viburnum

 

[MasterBlaster]

Mah nergo!

 

[canadiantreeman]

So you say its a viburnum? Which kind of viburnum? Don't make me go to the UBC forum on this one...

 

[sotc]

Thats not what he said.

 

[Paul B]

Indeed, I go Dogwood, just trying to share an acronym that seems to hold true amigo. Dont go all UBC on me or I will have to call the Curator, I am leading a walk with him at Riverview Hospital in a couple weeks. #namedrop

 

[canadiantreeman]

I don't believe it is either a dogwood or a viburnum...and thank you very much I have heard the mad buck acronym. What, you think I'm a noobie? This shrub is the bane of my existence! I've actually told clients that it is a variety of mockorange. Now I will tell those clients that I was wrong, and give them my new and improved business cards and hope they don't hate me! I think I've found a winner.

Deutzia parviflora mayhaps?

 

[FJR]

LOL repeat after me.... MADBuckV

opposite paired buds usually =
Maple
Ash
Dogwood
Buckey (Aesculus
and ?
Viburnum

Hah that is cool. I was taught MAD-Cap-Buck which is pretty much the same thing. Cap is Caprifoliaceae.

 

[sotc]

Those appear to have serrated leaves

 

[canadiantreeman]

Good eye, blast!

 

[canadiantreeman]

Now...I think this is the one.

Kolkwitzia amabilis

http://www.flickr.com/photos/43377881@N05/4278440755
http://www.flickr.com/photos/35252317@N00/522317278
http://www.flickr.com/photos/30108199@N00/3584877303

 

[Paul B]

That was going to be my next suggestion. Beauty bush.

 

[sotc]

Never heard of it but it fits. Very much like Cornaceae.

 

[Burnham]

Cool.

 

[Paul B]

Willie, its not very common, I have seen it but it gets confused with Weigela most times.