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Plant identification => Plant identification => Topic started by: Hilary on September 13, 2011, 08:36:10 AM

Title: white flowering shrub IDd by John and Oron as Spiraea arguta
Post by: Hilary on September 13, 2011, 08:36:10 AM

We saw this low spreading shrub in the gardens at Aranjuez, south of Madrid.
It looks  like too many shrubs for me to identify.
Any Ideas?

Title: Re: white flowering shrub
Post by: John on September 13, 2011, 12:34:09 PM

Looks like a Spiraea to me. Possibly S. arguta.

Title: Re: white flowering shrub
Post by: Alisdair on September 23, 2011, 05:24:24 PM

Or x vanhouttei??

Title: Re: white flowering shrub
Post by: oron peri on September 23, 2011, 09:21:29 PM

S. x vanhouttei has different leaves: widwer, shorter, dark green and much serrated.
I would echo John by saying  arguta.

Title: Re: white flowering shrub
Post by: Alisdair on September 24, 2011, 07:57:35 AM

OK, arguta, agreed: I rather prefer the flowering habit of this form to the very long flowering branchlets of the much commoner Bridal Wreath types.