On 07/06/2013 09:13, Patty Winter wrote:
This little (so far) guy has shown up next to some azaleas
in my front yard. Somehow I have the feeling that it isn't
going to stay small; it looks to me like it will turn into
a large shrub or even a tree. Does it look familiar to
anyone here?

http://www.wintertime.com/Personal/Plants/tree.html

Could be a cotoneaster. The berries are often eaten by birds, resulting
in a plant springing up a fair distance from the original plant.
Cotoneasters vary in size and habit, but can get to be large shrubs.
But the evergreen ones are quite ornamental, being smothered in white or
pinkish-white flowers which are followed by red berries, which attract
birds.

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Jeff