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Guelder Rose: Vidurnum Spulus.

Its maple leaves and absence of spines bears little resemblance to a rose. The posy-like flower clusters bears a sterile showy large outer circle of flowers which attracts pollinating insects to the inner smaller fertile flowers. There is also some self-pollination varieties. The leaves, bark and berries are all poisonous. The leaves with three to five holes are smooth on top and hairy below, turn a dull red in autumn. The shape and number of the lobes of the leaf are clues to differentiating this and sycamore from the maples which all share a similar shape.

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