On 14/04/2012 23:22, Stewart Robert Hinsley wrote:
In message , drbush
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hi
can anyone name this bush/tree please.


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Cherry laurel. I think it may be one of the cultivated variants, and
I've never discovered their taxonomic status.

[Cherry laurel in the narrow sense is Prunus laurocerasus.
Portugal laurel is Prunus lusitanica.]
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I agree. It may be the variety P.l. 'Otto Luyken'.

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