Pretty almond shaped small silver and blue green leaf, I have had one shrub in a hilltop fescue pasture and yard and it grew very fast. The field yonder left un mowed MEADOW filled up with it, up to ten by ten feet after a decade or two.
After five decades, gets twice as big, on a different lot it fills up the SEMI-TROPICAL FOREST TERRAIN the deer stay out, thorns form, solid soft red berries the birds carry it everywhere. Blocks airflow, hides the form of the land and other trees and plants, and makes tight hedges.
Easy to remove with electric small saw or a hand c saw or the second growth cut back with a spade. The precipitation amount rots the root.
New growth is dark green waxy. Burns leaves well.
All in all it’s here to stay and takes over despite creating its own canopy. Leggy, big, gets redundant.
If it is wanted try it. It certainly is an experience to work with this soft wood, easy to remove. Difficult to tame. The place Looks really clogged up and scraggly - but it makes a place very private or hard to see beyond.
If you like vista and want it in a small quantity every year cut it all off and it will likely grow right back and stay small and look fresh, young, and youthful. Can be dug up from the field and transplanted or even a broken off branch stuck into the ground will work.
But, yes, the nature’s natural wooded areas are ruined by it, after years of its seed massively spreading.
