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<p class="MsoNormal">It is Photinia serratifolia that is a rare escape in Virginia:
<a href="http://vaplantatlas.org/index.php?do=plant&plant=3890">http://vaplantatlas.org/index.php?do=plant&plant=3890</a><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>From:</b> MAIPC <maipc-bounces@lists.maipc.org> <b>On Behalf Of
</b>Patrick D. Kelly<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Thursday, May 19, 2022 12:06 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> MAIPC Listserve <maipc@lists.maipc.org>; INVASIVES@LISTSERV.UMD.EDU; Stephen Hiltner <stevehiltner@gmail.com><br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [MAIPC] mystery invasive in central NJ<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif">Yes, Dirr mentions in his tome Manual of Woody landscape Plants pg 809 observing this plant P. villossa Oriental Photinia escaping from a noted arboretum "with seedlings
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif">But no...cultivar Red Tip Photinia, the popular landscape plant, has not been noted for invasiveness. In fact, I'm surprised any of them survive at all due to rampant leaf
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#26282A">Many on these listserves can be grateful that you haven't encountered Photinia villosa. I believe it is an escape from a nursery in Princeton, NJ, and is now
spreading across the state. A few years back, I discovered another invasive small tree that may be in the same genus, which was changed from Photinia to </span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#333333">Pourthiaea. Here are
a couple photos of the foliage, comparing the two: </span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#26282A"><a href="https://gcc02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fphotos.app.goo.gl%2FgptnqGTfHnVXZuNz9&data=05%7C01%7Crod.simmons%40alexandriava.gov%7Cd854d488c2c14ac2c34908da39b177a1%7Cfeaa9b3143754aeeadccc76ad32a890b%7C0%7C0%7C637885732813684646%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=3VPQzeCdd1v3AXHZvIsH7HdvOxRWEtKFU%2F9B39b2SKI%3D&reserved=0" target="_blank">https://photos.app.goo.gl/gptnqGTfHnVXZuNz9</a>
The Photinia villosa is much coarser.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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more photos</a> on my nature blog, and the species, whatever it is, is now being discussed on iNaturalist: <a href="https://gcc02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.inaturalist.org%2Fobservations%2F117251042&data=05%7C01%7Crod.simmons%40alexandriava.gov%7Cd854d488c2c14ac2c34908da39b177a1%7Cfeaa9b3143754aeeadccc76ad32a890b%7C0%7C0%7C637885732813684646%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=frnG%2FaUV1VeV2oqC76MuV6DvNsVneSspIJUbDCFnsM8%3D&reserved=0" target="_blank">https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/117251042</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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