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from "Natalie" contains these words:

Your plant sounds like a Cornus commonly known as Dogwood.

Dogwood has black berries and the stems aren't (very) red. Otherwise,
spot-on. G

(Same family)

I can visualise the shrub: the year-old stems are wine-red. My mother
had one - up the garden path.

gravelly voice

Have some Madeira, m'dear...

/vox

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