Plant Identification

[PABonsai]

I walk around a lot at lunch and for over a year I have had my eye on this thing. Can someone tell me possibly what it might be? It is growing up the side of a building, I can't tell if it's a vine or a tree just really close to the building. In the first picture the woody section appears to be round like a tree limb. Bark is smooth.

It has these awesome heaping clusters of orange berries. Any ideas?

 

[Wires_Guy_wires]

Pyracantha

 

[just.wing.it]

Yup....what ^he said.

 

[PABonsai]

Thanks guys. I knew this was the right place to ask this question!

 

[rockm]

Also known as "firethorn" Here's one from the Chinese collection at the National Bonsai and Penjing Museum

 

[Colorado]

They make great bonsai. @JudyB has a beautiful one, check out “The Shohin Tree Thread.”

 

[PABonsai]

Well I guess it's good I grabbed a handful of berries then

Anyone want hundreds of seedlings lol? This thing is bursting with them!

 

[JudyB]

Some have red berries, some orange.

 

[penumbra]

Pyracantha are very easy to root. That can save years of seedling development and with a cutting you know what you're getting.

 

[PABonsai]

Does it affect them if you cut the thorns off? The thorns were one of the reasons I didn't look into them up to this point?

 

[penumbra]

Does it affect them if you cut the thorns off? The thorns were one of the reasons I didn't look into them up to this point?

Probably not but I will defer to those that have them.

 

[Barry]

I cut them, no problem

 

[Shibui]

They are called firethorn because pain is far more intense than most other thorny plants.
With thorns you will grow to hate working on a pyracantha and so do less than needed. Cut thorns to make it comfortable to be near it and you will enjoy the tree far more.

 

[Woocash]

I got grazed by a landscape one last week and can still feel it. Little buggers. Really pretty plants though.

 

[penumbra]

There is actually a mild toxin in the thorns and you can expect soreness at puncture sites for 2 or 3 days. When I was working at a large nursery ( or 2, or 3) Wintergreen Barberry was the most villainous plant. If you let the help know that a load was being delivered the next day, half the labor would call in sick.