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[ID] any ideas on this?

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I stumbled across a few instances of whatever this plant is while out digging for olives and hawthorn. There seemed to be a few around, and none were showing any signs of losing leaves so possibly an evergreen. I only took the one photo focusing on a single leaf - there are some fruit-looking things at the top of this photo that aren't in focus unfortunately.

Fingers crossed for something invasive and interesting so I can go back and dig some :tu:
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The best match I can find so far is rhamnus alaternus, not confident but those leaf spines look pretty distinctive
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Its a bit hard to identify off just one leaf. My plant finder app says it could be either a pear or black haw. Good luck with it :tu:
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Cheers guys, the closest match I came up with is some sort of cherry which I don't reckon is right - both black haw and r. alaternus look closer in terms of leaf shape. Black haw seems to have opposite leaves which might rule that out.

If (when :palm:) I go back out digging I'll grab some better photos.
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greg27 wrote: June 10th, 2020, 9:32 am Cheers guys, the closest match I came up with is some sort of cherry which I don't reckon is right - both black haw and r. alaternus look closer in terms of leaf shape. Black haw seems to have opposite leaves which might rule that out.

If (when :palm:) I go back out digging I'll grab some better photos.
Download the app called PlantNet and when your out there you'll be able to up load photos and get a clearer idea of what it is.
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