ID please for this shrub

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  1. SooBee

    SooBee Apprentice Gardener

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    I'd love an ID for this tall shrub in my garden - the flowers are like elderflower but much smaller and smell kind of sweet too. This shrub (tree?)is all over this area of North Oxon.
    Many thanks
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    A close up picture would be good please Soobee. :)
     
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    Hope this is better!
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    That's better thanks. :) Possibly a Viburnam.
     
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      Second picture looks like cotoneaster?

      Just googled it. C lacteus has sprays of flowers like that. I have cotoneaster that looks something like like C lacteus in my front garden. Arrived via birds so possibly a bit of a mongrel!



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      Oh dear, on Google Images it could be either of those! Will have to see what berries arrive in due course. I probably err more on the side of a viburnum as this has a scent and I don't think cotoneaster does.
       
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      Found this. http://www.hort.cornell.edu/vlb/key/I2.htm
      Apparently viburnum leaves always grow in pairs. Your photo shows alternating leaf pattern.

      Its like being a detective!

      Thanks for the puzzle :)

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      I guess it'll have to remain a mystery then.
       
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      Could it be Cornus alternifolia - alternate-leafed dogwood?
       
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        Yes it could well be that one, a dogwood as I found out, indigenous to North America. Must be self-seeded as the people who had the house before us did zero gardening apart from grass cutting.
         
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