Plant Identification Help

[Juic3dup]

Can somone Please help me Name this Plant! The Real name I was told it Before but I forgot! Juniper? Chinese Elm, Maple?
Or the Real Specific Name Would be Awesome!

 

[Wires_Guy_wires]

Ficus, maybe.
Either way it's not one of the things you mentioned ;-)

 

[Shibui]

Not Ficus - no terminal buds with sheaths.
Opposite leaves could be many species but possibly privet?
Definitely not any of the species originally mentioned.

 

[19Mateo83]

Looks like privet possibly?

 

[Millard B.]

It would help tremendously to have flowers, fruit, or seed to help with the identification. Also crush one of it's leaves to see if it has a smell.. I stopped roadside yesterday and collected a couple leaves and a flower spike from a tree that I think is in the Bucida family, I'm taking the pressed material to my good friend who is a college trained botanist.
Where are you in Florida?

 

[Millard B.]

It also could be in the Stopper family, it's leaves have a very aromatic smell???

 

[Fishsauce]

Instead of starting another thread for help, can anyone help with identifying this plant? I dug it up from a shady corner of a friend's yard.

 

[Wires_Guy_wires]

Instead of starting another thread for help, can anyone help with identifying this plant? I dug it up from a shady corner of a friend's yard.


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I only know those vivid red colors from blueberry but they've never made a trunk like that in my care.

 

[Leo in N E Illinois]

0 for 2 here, not certain on either.

@Fishsauce There are Vaccinium species (blueberry and huckleberry family) that do develop trunks, but they are not at all common as "yard plants" you'd be very unlikely to find one in a back yard.

 

[Fishsauce]

The leaves are vivid red so I was guessing that it could be a burning bush but wasn't sure.

 

[Leo in N E Illinois]

Burning bush is definitely possible. Euonymus alatus. or one of the other closely related Euonymus species like E. americanus and or E. atropurureus

check Wikipedia for images and discussion.

Most of the shrub forming Euonymus species are fairly good bonsai candidates. As are Vaccinium

 

[Fishsauce]

Here are two more I need ID help with. Just picked these up on the side of the road in front of someone's yard with a "free" sign. I'm thinking these are some type of box wood or azaleas.
They must have been in the pot a long time since most of the soil has been wash away and the pot is only 1/3 full. A lot of the roots were exposed but were covered with leaves. I filled them back up with some dirt just to cover most of the roots. Hopefully the plants will recover next Spring and regrow some healthy leaves.

 

[Leo in N E Illinois]

Box or privet would be my guess.

 

[Fishsauce]

Will these backbud easily if I chop off the top 2/3 early next spring?

 

[Leo in N E Illinois]

I believe they will