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Plant ID Help Needed
Can anyone help me ID this shrub in my backyard? Every year about this time it gets these great red blossoms that Baltimore Orioles seems to love.
I have heard it called a Hackberry Bush, but I am not so sure…
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Not native! But not invasive. Quince.
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I would love to know and plant it in my yard (if native). Deedee?
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Try quince
NOT hackberry, but common names confusing
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Deedee Burnside
Not native! But not invasive. Quince.
deejbrown
I would love to know and plant it in my yard (if native). Deedee?
em-wallacee@wpunj.edu
Try quince
NOT hackberry, but common names confusing