Shrubs, hedges and climbers · question 5
What does the leaf look like?
- Palmately lobed (3–5 lobes); berries in strings
- Three-lobed and coarsely toothed; large funnel-shaped flowers in August: Doesn’t come into leaf until May.
- Entire (smooth margin)
- Serrated or toothed
Still possible
- Blackcurrant (Ribes nigrum)
- Redcurrant (Ribes rubrum)
- Syrian hibiscus (Hibiscus syriacus)
- Alder buckthorn (Frangula alnus)
- Magnolia (Magnolia)
- Osier (Salix viminalis)
- Hazel (Corylus avellana)
- Snowy mespilus (Amelanchier lamarckii)
- Highbush blueberry (Vaccinium corymbosum)
- Spiraea (Spiraea)
- Japanese kerria (Kerria japonica)
- Witch hazel (Hamamelis)