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Offline annette

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Please identify!!!
« on: June 19, 2008, 11:47:07 pm »
Ok the bees are not on the lavender as I had posted before, or on anything else right now. They are on this bush/tree which is all over the 20 acres of land around the hive.

Anyone know what this is.






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Re: Please identify!!!
« Reply #1 on: June 19, 2008, 11:50:34 pm »
Annette, I could be dead wrong but it sure looks like ligustrum. The wild variety we call privet, it smells wonderful but the blooms last 1-2 weeks.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Ligustrum_ovalifolium.jpg


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Re: Please identify!!!
« Reply #2 on: June 20, 2008, 12:36:34 pm »
That looks like New Jersey Tea. A summer blooming lilac.

Edit: Nope I'm wrong. I just looked up what Privet was and the flowers match up perfectly.

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Re: Please identify!!!
« Reply #3 on: June 20, 2008, 12:50:26 pm »
It does match up. Thanks.


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Re: Please identify!!!
« Reply #4 on: June 20, 2008, 02:10:25 pm »
Annette, I could be dead wrong but it sure looks like ligustrum. The wild variety we call privet, it smells wonderful but the blooms last 1-2 weeks.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Ligustrum_ovalifolium.jpg


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JP you like the smell of that plant man tears me up it smells so bad IMO

Annette the bees down here are all over the stuff they love it

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Re: Please identify!!!
« Reply #5 on: June 20, 2008, 02:40:41 pm »
Annette, I could be dead wrong but it sure looks like ligustrum. The wild variety we call privet, it smells wonderful but the blooms last 1-2 weeks.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Ligustrum_ovalifolium.jpg


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JP you like the smell of that plant man tears me up it smells so bad IMO

Annette the bees down here are all over the stuff they love it

Keith

In Ms, when the privet blooms the air smells absolutely wonderful!!! The ligustrums at my house which are huge and towering smell wonderful! To my wife and I.


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Re: Please identify!!!
« Reply #6 on: June 20, 2008, 03:21:36 pm »
The honey from Privet Hedge is stiffer than most other honey's, doesn't want to turn loose if the comb
in extracting, makes good comb honey, is light colored.
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Re: Please identify!!!
« Reply #7 on: June 21, 2008, 11:39:56 am »
Hmmm....looks very similar to Viburnum.
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Re: Please identify!!!
« Reply #8 on: June 22, 2008, 12:22:30 am »
Well I will have to check that out also.

Thanks Cindi

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Re: Please identify!!!
« Reply #9 on: June 22, 2008, 12:25:29 am »
Well the flower looks similar,but the leaves are definitely not the same. These leaves are more shiny and hard.

 

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