Tiny little purple balls

[Christelle]

Hello there,

I would really really like to be able to find out what this plant i called - my partner and I were walking in Hampshire, in the south o England and we spotted this unusual little plant that appeared to b growing out of someone's front garden.

I will try my best to attach pictures but so far its not letting me.

The colour of the flowers on this plant are really unique and rare they are a gorgeous metallic shade of purple and they come in tin clusters of balls. The stem is a light woody colour and there is n foliage with this plant - they resemble slightly misletoe but mistleto has leaves generally, which is not the case with this rare plant.

Please help! Any sort of clue would be wonderful - I have searche high and low and nothing has come up.

Many thanks..

Christell

-- Christelle

[Ann]

Christelle expounded:

post your picture over in alt.binaries.pictures.gardens and many of us will be able to see it.

[tinyplanter]

Is it what you saw in Hampshire?

that is the case, its 'murasakishikibu' or Japanese beautyberry (Callicarpa japonica Thumb) . The fruits would stay as it is after all the leaves are gone. i guess you might saw it with no leaves. If my brain cells have been activated properly, i may have hit the mark.

Ono