can you identify this blooming shrub

 I planted seeds a few years ago and the shrubs are just blooming for
the first time this year.
Anyone know what they might be?  The plants are about 6 feet tall.
The leaves are oval shiny and green. Flowers are rather fragile
looking white and yellow:
photo:
http://ih.fotothing.com/90270.jpg

 On 6/7/2009 10:57 AM, doctoroe wrote:

Interesting!  Flowers with 3 or 6 petals are generally monocots (bulbs
and bulblike plants, cactus, grasses, palms), but the leaves (the oval
ones) are clearly those of a dicot (herbacious and woody perennials and
shrubs).

The flowers and leaves resemble pearl bush (Exochorda) except pearl bush
flowers have 5 petals.

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David E. Ross
Climate:  California Mediterranean
Sunset Zone: 21 -- interior Santa Monica Mountains with some ocean
influence (USDA 10a, very close to Sunset Zone 19)
Gardening diary at <http://www.rossde.com/garden/diary>

 Thanks it is definitely not a pearl bush.  A friend said it might be
some type of Gardenia, but these blooms are very puny compared to most
domestic gardenias I've seen.

 

Actually I thought 'gardenia' too when I first saw it.  BUT I don't live in
an area where gardenias can grow and I didn't think they got to 6ft from
seeds in just a couple of years anyway but since I know nothing about them,
I couldn't comment other than to say that I too had gardenia as a first
thought.  After that I thought perhaps 'magnolia' but I can't grow them
either here except for the boring old deciduous ones.

Look forward to finding out what it is.

 

What I thought too
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