ID Help!

Hi There

Can anyone help me ID these 2 shrubs/trees?

I'm thinking the first could be part of the Rhodidendron family or similar?

The second, I'm stumped. I know more about trees and the leaves are very similar to a rowan or ash, but it is growing as more of a bush/shrub?

Many Thanks

 

Good evening Rock Monkey and welcome to the site. I think the first one may be Prunus lusitanica common name, Portugese laurel. The second plant looks like Wisteria rather than a tree.

 

Hi Rock Monkey and welcome from me too.

I agree with Dai on the first picture, a Prunus lusitanica (Portuguese laurel) .. I had a beautiful one in Bucks I grew from a whipper-snapper and it was more than 5 meters tall when I left 15 years after planting it. Strangely I haven't seen one here but I suspect they are pleatiful up North where it is cooler.

I can't really tell on the second one but it could well be Wisteria.

 

I think the 3rd one could be Acacia - or pseudo Acacia, but stand to be corrected. Does it have any thorns ?

 

Alice, number 3 is the same plant as number 2.

 

Number 2/3 looks like wisteria to me, too.

 

Sticking my neck out here, but I'd say the first one looks more like Euonymous japonicus (Japanese Spindle). From the photo, it doesn't seem to have the dark red leaf stems of Portugese Laurel and the leaf shape and colour looks more like E. japonicus.

 

thanks for all the replies, I agree no. 1 does look like a laurel of some sort. I think I have id the 2nd as part of the sorbus family.

Thanks again

 

Eeeck.
2. Is definitely not a Sorbus!!!
I thought it looked very like Wisteria.

1. I am unsure from your pic. My leaning was to Euonymus rather than laurel.

I would really like to see good close up pics of both these plants.