Tree ID: Euonymous alatus. !00% certain diagnosis from your photos. BUT--you describe the leaves as alternate; E. alatus has opposite leaves (as does the plant in your photos), so, is there a mix-up here? Google Euonymous alatus and judge for yourself. Let us know. -m
--- In nativegardening@yahoogroups.com, Kathleen Domenig <kmdomenig@...> wrote:
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> We have a small tree growing in our undisciplined/wild yard that I have not been able to identify. Can anyone help me with this?
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> It has alternate leaves about 2 inches long, which have now turned red, and a few oval red berries on stems that seem to hang from the leaf stems.
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> Here are some photos:
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> I'd appreciate any suggestions. I tried typing it through a couple of different guides. With one, I thought the magic moment was at hand, when ! --in the last step it said that it had to be cornus florida and couldn't be anything else . . . . which it very clearly is not.
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> Thanks.
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> Kathleen Domenig
> State College, Pennsylvania
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