Love it. We used to have the one with pink flowers....Colletia hystrix rosea
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Yours is a shrub ......Colletia paradoxa.
The triangular bits are actually flattened stems not leaves.
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How very kind of them to give you a cutting!
I dread to think what would happen to plants if everyone helped themselves.
RHS advice...."Propagate by semi-ripe cuttings of short sideshoots in late summer "