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gen: 2026/09/23:15:14 in 52.1 secname: Oregon grape
type: thingscientific name: Mahonia aquifolium
pts: 0confidence level: 93%
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It is a Oregon grape.

Scientific name: Mahonia aquifolium.

An evergreen shrub typically 1–3 meters tall, with upright to spreading woody stems and compound leaves. Each leaf usually consists of 5–9 leathery, oval to lance-shaped leaflets arranged in opposite pairs along a slender central stalk, ending in a single terminal leaflet. Leaflets have pointed tips, prominent midribs, and sharply toothed, slightly wavy margins, each tooth tipped with a small spine. Mature foliage is glossy dark green, while emerging growth is coppery pink to bronze. Dense clusters of small yellow flowers appear near the shoot tips in spring, followed by rounded blue-purple berries with a pale, waxy coating..

Despite its holly-like leaves and grape-like berries, Oregon grape is neither a holly nor a grape: it belongs to the barberry family, Berberidaceae..

The dominant shrub has pinnately compound leaves with paired, glossy, holly-like leaflets and distinctly spiny margins. The copper-colored new growth and small bluish fruits visible within the foliage also support Oregon grape. The relatively elongated, shiny leaflets and upright, bushy growth favor Mahonia aquifolium over the generally lower-growing, duller-leaved creeping Oregon grape. Related species and garden hybrids can look similar, so exact species identification is slightly less certain than identification as an Oregon grape.

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gen: 2026/08/08:17:46 in 56.5 secname: Fukien tea bonsai
type: thingscientific name: Ehretia microphylla (syn. Carmona retusa)
pts: 0confidence level: 82%
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It is a Fukien tea bonsai.

Scientific name: Ehretia microphylla (syn. Carmona retusa).

A small, woody, evergreen shrub commonly trained as a bonsai. It has a gnarled, gray-brown to tan trunk with rough, fissured bark and many short, twiggy branches. The leaves are small, glossy, dark green, and usually obovate to spatulate, often about 1–3 cm long, with rounded tips, slightly wavy or shallowly toothed margins, and a distinctive pebbled or dotted surface texture. New shoots are slender and pale green to brownish. When mature and healthy, it may produce small, star-shaped white flowers with five petals, followed by tiny round berries that turn green, yellow-orange, red, and eventually dark as they ripen..

Fukien tea bonsai can flower indoors if given enough bright light; the small white blossoms may later form tiny berry-like fruits on the same miniature tree..

The plant appears to be a small woody bonsai with dense clusters of very small, glossy, dark green leaves. The leaves show a bumpy, dotted surface and slightly scalloped or toothed margins, which are key visual traits of Fukien tea. Its twiggy growth habit and rough, miniature trunk are also typical of Fukien tea bonsai sold as indoor bonsai. Similar bonsai plants such as Chinese elm or boxwood can have small leaves, but Chinese elm leaves are thinner and more clearly serrated, while boxwood leaves are smoother and more oval with less of the distinctive speckled surface.

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