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Does anyone know what this plant is??

Posted: Tue Jul 6, 2021 5:45pm
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Hi all, 

We’ve had this plant in our ‘garden’ now for a few years. It doesn’t like a lot of water!! We’ve learnt that if we give it too much water, it’s leaves brown and fall off. I’ve cut it back a few times, then it shoots back up , when we go back to the UK for a month or two.

We have not been here for 9 months , so it’s had time to grow, roughly about 5 foot!!!!!

We’ve never seen it flower, and can’t match it’s leaves in garden centres???!!!

What is it???

Regards

Posted: Tue Jul 6, 2021 10:03pm

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Posted: Tue Jul 6, 2021 10:03pm

It looks like a bougainvillea to me.

But it should have colourful bracts on it.

Maybe you are cutting it back too hard ??

Posted: Tue Jul 6, 2021 10:24pm

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Posted: Tue Jul 6, 2021 10:24pm

Roland wrote on Tue Jul 6, 2021 10:03pm:

It looks like a bougainvillea to me.

But it should have colourful bracts on it.

 

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Maybe you are cutting it back too hard ??

We have a few Bougainville, but the leaves on this are a lot bigger, and darker green.

But you could be right, we’ll just have to wait and see what happens. 
I must admit, it looks very healthy whatever it turns out to be😀😀😀

Thank you.

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