Originally Posted by Bob Hobden

"Bob Hobden" wrote

"NickH" wrote...

Can anyone identify a tree I saw when visiting Croydon in October?
It has pea sized, deep violet berries, each of which has four or five
pink bracts behind it, trailing to form the shape of a shuttlecock.

I assume it is not a native - and, being a Scot, I'm the other alien!

I can picture it but do you think I can remember the name.

Possibly Euonymus oxyphyllacus but I think it's something else where the
berry is seperated from the rest by a little stalk, a bit like a ball with a
parachute.

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Regards
Bob Hobden