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This shrub makes an excellent deterrent hedge and is planted widely as well as being self-sown around Britain. It is native on the East coast and at Spurn point near Hull for instance, it has spread rapidly over the last 20 years or so. It has long stiff spines and forms dense thickets like bramble. The photographs show the fruit because the flowers are possibly the smallest of any plant in the UK. I always have to have my magnifying glass out even to see if this early flowering shrub is actually flowering or not. I'm not at all sure about Stace's R rating for this plant - it deosn't seem to me to be rare at all.
Llandudno West Shore (Winter) 13th January 2005, Red Rocks, Wirral 29th September 2004
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