"Stewart Robert Hinsley" wrote ...
Bob Hobden
"Stewart Robert Hinsley" wrote...
, Bob Hobden writes
There is a post on alt.binaries.pictures.gardens by Paddy's Pig asking
what a plant is. I'm sure I know it but can't remember it's name. It's
driving me mad, can some of you please look and see if you can ID it and
put me out of my misery?

Is it a Lonicera of some description?

I don't think so, the trunks look remarkably like that but the leaves and
stems don't IMO.

The trunks reminded me of winter honeysuckles (or fly honeysuckle); the
leaves of Lonicera nitida or Lonicera pileata. But if Lonicera hasn't
struck a chord in your memory, presumably it's not what you're trying to
think of.

It isn't what I was thinking of but may well be what you say. Looks like
it's pruned in a rather strange fashion, almost pollarded.

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Regards
Bob Hobden
W.of London. UK