Thread: Purple flowers, orange berries

Are we talking about the same plant? Persea versus "Persia"? Or do we have different ideas of what round and oval are? This is not an argumentative comment. I'm concerned that maybe there is a communication gap here. I just pulled up photos of fruits of Persea indica and Persea borbonia along with photos of young avocado fruits and to me, they're all "oval". Joe

Perhaps some type of jasmine, Jasminum. Here is a link that might be useful: images

You're still sounding like you are discounting possible viable suggestions based on characteristics of some of the kinds in the group (such as the locally native species of one genus), and then coming up with candidates of your own that are really quite far off. Have you checked out all the suggestions made so far? Russian olive is Elaeagnus angustifolia, it's not even evergreen and looks even less like your plant than Olea europaea.

Curcuma australasica? Here is a link that might be useful: Curcuma australasica

Looks like that to me too. On a side note,we used to call it Swan plant. The seed pods can be picked and floated on water to resemble swans. It amuses young children.

Dear Joe, alas biological pest management is too costly for them. They would rather spend $100 a bay on insecticide than to consider biological options, we have fungus gnats as well and i was reading bout biological control and they said its just too costly. not a whole lot i could do. I would love to find alternative options, but there is not much i can do. they are set in their capitalistic ways. thank you for your help though.

For the first time in years I am extremely sorry I ever asked for help on this plant. I am not an amateur and I know perseas very well. I doubt very much this is a persea. I fear this has become a parade for perseas without considering other species. Let's just forget I ever uploaded the *&^%$#@ picture. I live in an area where E. angustifolia is an evergreen. It stands to reason variations are as well. Let's try this. Other than...

I'm afraid I didn't think to snap pics of the shrub until I'd already hacked a great deal of it out. So the pics don't show any of the newer growth areas. The branches do indeed come out at 90 degrees (more or less), opposite each other, and each set perpendicular to the previous set off the same branch. In the older growth areas, many of the "interior" branches have died, thus losing the main pattern more visible...

Your grouping of plants should produce berries. If not, look for another compact form of V. tinus - either 'Spring Bouquet'/'Compactum', 'Evie' or 'Spirit' - to plant alongside. But like I stated previously, this is not a selection of viburnum I would grow specifically for the berry effect - it's primary desirabiity is its versatility in the landscape (in climate appropriate areas) and its very long...

I believe that it's a very enlarged image of an aphid. The 'proboscis' that Joe sees is the other antennae, me thinks. The second image illustrates shed skins of the aphids, which are very commonly strewn all over the place, like dirty laundry. Those discarded exoskeletons are often mistaken for larvae.