Is this what your plant looks like ???

http://www.manntaylor.com/plantweek2b.html

If it is this, it is not exactly common!!!
In fact it is pretty unusual I would have thought in the UK.

Chris in Somerset

| ...
| If you would give us a description of your plant, we might be able to
| help identifyif it is indeed Xanthoceras of something else....
| Chris in Somerset
|
| Michael Savage wrote in message
| .. .
| | Hi all
| |
| | I have tentatively identified (from RHS book and Google) one of the
| shrubs
| | in the garden as Xanthoceras sorbifolium. The RHS book says it is rare
| in
| | gardens...two questions really - are there any obvious things I could
| be
| | confusing it with, and is it really that unusual ? One reason for
| asking
| is
| | that it's growing against/among a rhody and if they were two a penny I
| might
| | thinking of pulling it out. Interesting bark though...
| |
| | Michael S
|
|
| OOPS!
|
| The shrub is about 2m tall with many more or less erect stems, with rough
| grey bark (popular with lichens). It has pinnate leaves, very like Rowan
| (toothed leaflets), and white flowers about 5cm across (IIRC) with
| yellow-brown blotches in the centre, in clusters/spikes. Flowered in about
| June/July I think.
|
| Sorry but I didn't take any snaps of it in flower and don't have a website
| to post one on anyway...(yet)
|
| Michael S
|