Monday, November 16, 2009

Can anyone help me identify this shrub?

It is quite large. In the spring it has magenta colored leaves and very small pinkish flowers. My boyfriend calls it a fire bush but I know that's not right. LOL. Or if anyone knows of a website I can go to and look at different pictures of shrubs, that would be helpful also.

Can anyone help me identify this shrub?
Perhaps I can help~ Here is Southern CA we have a wonderful bronze/magenta bush commonly referred to as Copper Leaf or Fijaen Fire Plant. It has large brilliant red/magenta leaves and tiny pinkish-red flowers that grow on little tassels. Latin (scientific name) Acalypha wilkesiana.





This is a sub-tropical shrub that will not tolerate a freeze. If you do not live in a warm /tropical area, this is not your bush!


Please give more info. If it only looks like this during the spring it may be an ornamental plum tree? Do the leaves turn green in the summer?
Reply:Perhaps a variety of Cercis perhaps cercis 'forest pansy'.
Reply:Try this site it might help.





http://www.plant-care.com/1558-different...


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