# Identify Indiana flowering shrub?

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**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [May 23, 2014, 6:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/identify-indiana-flowering-shrub/689118 "2014-05-23T18:29:32Z")\
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**Author:** ![lissener](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lissener/32/6139_2.png) [@lissener](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lissener)\
**Post date:** [May 23, 2014, 6:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/identify-indiana-flowering-shrub/689118/1 "2014-05-23T18:29:32Z")

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Hey, can anyone help me ID this shrub? A friend from Indiana sent me the pic thinking I could do so, but I can’t get any closer than “It \*looks \*like daphne, but it’s not.” Thanks in advance.

[![](http://tinypic.com/images/goodbye.jpg) ](http://tinypic.com/images/goodbye.jpg)

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**Author:** ![jayjay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jayjay/32/6765_2.png) [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)\
**Post date:** [May 23, 2014, 11:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/identify-indiana-flowering-shrub/689118/2 "2014-05-23T23:05:11Z")

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Looks like some kind of olive. Couldn’t tell you anything more specific, but that’s the direction I’d take any searches.

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**Author:** ![jayjay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jayjay/32/6765_2.png) [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)\
**Post date:** [May 23, 2014, 11:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/identify-indiana-flowering-shrub/689118/3 "2014-05-23T23:07:30Z")

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On further search, I’d say it’s [Autumn Olive](http://www.jeffpippen.com/plants/elaeagnus.htm), which is apparently considered an invasive species.

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**Author:** ![lissener](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lissener/32/6139_2.png) [@lissener](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lissener)\
**Post date:** [May 23, 2014, 11:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/identify-indiana-flowering-shrub/689118/4 "2014-05-23T23:36:25Z")

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Thanks!!!