…Then another unidentified tree below Tin Garden which definitely has spine tipped shoots and may very well also be Schinus polygama. I did not notice the spine tipped shoots on…

…to be very like Torreya californica (California nutmeg) but with smaller leaves. This plant has however noticeably bigger spine tipped leaves than Torreya nuncifera. Whether it is indeed T. taxifolia…

…which Bean says is closely allied to S. polygama but without the spine tips on its twigs/branches with ovate or elliptic leaves. Certainly it is different from the Schinus polygama…

…close to Ilex aquifolium ‘Pyramidalis’. We might get closer if we had immature leaves perhaps with more spines than here. The only spine on these leaves is at the tip….

…one spine etc but the flowers are said to be on second year growth which they clearly are not here. I suppose they might be when the new growth emerges….

…Callicarpa cathayana Callicarpa cathayana Finally I find what I now think is Osmanthus heterophyllus ‘Sasaba’ which has most peculiar deeply cut leaves and numerous but very variable spine-tipped lobes. Osmanthus…

…related to Zelkova. Totally hardy, a shrubby tree with spine tipped branchlets and small yellowish-green fruits. Introduced from Korea/China in 1908.Also on the Pavia list were up to 50 species…