Question: I need help IDing this tree/bush. It has a tree like appearance and seems to not grow to be of …
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Question
I need help IDing this tree/bush. It has a tree like appearance and seems to not grow to be of any size. It has been growing on my hill for over 15 years and the base of the largest is about the size of a quarter. It gets clusters of white flowers with 4 petals in late spring early summer and here at the middle to end of Sept. it has little green seeds in a cluster about the size of BBs. It does NOT lose its leaves in the winter in my planting zone of 6a. I've been trying to ID this for years.
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Dear racingbear88, Your plant is a species of Ligustrum (privet), a non-native member of the Oleaceae (olive family). I can't tell you which species because Go Botany is only allowing one image to be uploaded due to a known glitch that is being worked on. If you would email me the series of photographs to ahaines[at]newenglandwild.org, I can take a closer look and try to get you an identification on the exact species. Best wishes.
