Tree.With Yellow /Green Varigated Leaves

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  1. shimsham

    shimsham Gardener

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    Can anyone tell me the name of a tree that as leaves with yellow edges and green inner leaves its a kind of a round tree unless thats the way it as been cut.I have asked many keen gardeners to but they have all been stumped. Sorry no pics -no camera
     
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    Yes i think you could be right sussexgardener i am certain it could be the CHOPPILO EUONYMUS thanks for your help.
     
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    Been told this morning that it is a Candid Candelabra if thats the correct spelling
     
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    :scratch: Maybe check that name again shimsham, as nothing comes up for that.. Well except Euphorbias & it isn't one of them... Well wouldn't have thought so anyway... Now you have me puzzled... :scratch::D
     
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    It would be so much handier if so many plants didn't look alike:hehe:
     
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    Candelabra tree [ euphorbia ingens]
     
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    :thmb: Got it in one...!!!!!!!!!!!!! There are so many options...!!!!:dh::D Come on shim sham you are going to have to describe it better. Is it like any of the ones suggested so far , in any way..?:wink:
     
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    As in my last post the owner as told me thats what its called can only get brief information from him as his mother bought it about 10 years ago but the one thing he did say was that you have to cut it back every year otherwise the leaves will go back to being all green instead of variegated.
     
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    Laurel (if that's how you spell it) as in "and hardy"
     
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    Just have a look at this on ebay item no 360152188567 i have spoke to the lady with this item and she said she was 95% certain it was this which is a Euonymus grafted onto a stem.
     
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