Mountain honeysuckle or border privet?
One lovely thing about autumn is that different species suddenly stand out. I had walked by this mountain honeysuckle (or is it border privet?) many times, surely. Perhaps it blended in with the eu...
One lovely thing about autumn is that different species suddenly stand out. I had walked by this mountain honeysuckle (or is it border privet?) many times, surely. Perhaps it blended in with the eu...
The "heart" shape of the leaves is barely discernible, but unlike the other willows, this one has leaves that spread outward and back a bit before curving into a long, typical, willow shape.
There's just one specimen of this plant, as far as I can tell, but it's a very dense shrub near the pond. I don't know what this strange orange-red growth might be.