Mid-Atlantic Gardening: HELP ME ID THIS PLANT!!!!, 0 by Gitagal

Gitagal wrote:
Hi--Y'All----

Many of you know that i have shared many plants and seedlings with my Store manager, Donn, for 3 yrs. now.
That his whole garden is, likely, populated with MY plants! He always raves about everything.....
I have never seen them--as it would be unethical for a store Manager to invite a measly associate to his home...
Lots of ethics at risk here....

He has been asking me to ID a plant HE SAYS I gave him 2 years ago.....The one with red and green leaves....
I always say--"HEY! Take a picture of it so I can see! He never did!

Today--he brings in a tip of a branch to show me what it is. I have NO IDEA!!!!
He swears I gave him a root--and he planted it.....I still have NO IDEA!!! I debate with him--but he insists
I gave it to him. I DO NOT recognize it! Maybe I got it at a Plant Swap????
My 1st thought was that it was one of those "Weed Trees"--whose name starts with an "A" ???

SO! I put this limp cutting he brought to show me in someone's empty water bottle---and it revived----

Here is what he told me-----

--He swears I gave him a root to this plant 2 years ago
--It is a small "bush"--about 3'x3'--HE LOVES IT!!!!
--He has had it now for 2 years
--It does not bloom--just green
--It's new growth comes up red--then changes to green.
The stems are still red....
--Obviously--It is a perennial.....

Please look at the pictures to follow and see if you know what it is....
I told him that I would NOT have given him something I do not know the name of!
He says I did!

OK! Here is the view from the top of this small tip-cutting he brought to work today.

WHAT IS IT?