What is the name of this bush with Black Berries?
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I was collecting bittersweet and found this growing along side of it. It is a bush with long arched limbs that have these black/blue berries on them. They are staying on very well as I collected some fallen branches and just put in a vase with no water. They look very much like the "PIP" berry vines that are faux you can purchase. Smiles, Cyndi
Black berries with Bittersweet berries
What are these black berries?
They look like Pip faux berries
13 answers
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They look like mulberries.
Catherine Smith
on Jan 14, 2014
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Not mulberries but I think chokeberries (Aronia) is the genus which are found in the swampy areas or wet areas. or or chokecherries (Prunus Virginia) which also have darker berries in winter.
The Garden Frog with C Renee
on Jan 14, 2014
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Mulberries are from a tree and look much like blackberries. These look like a native plant that I've seen growing here in out local prairie grass restoration area in central Illinois. Sorry I don't know the name of it!
Terri Austill
on Jan 14, 2014
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clustering formation of the "berries" isn't right for Aronia or Prunus virginia, looks more like the form that privet makes - possibly a Chinese privet? definitely not a mulberry. Check this link for the privet in January http://images.harc.edu/Sites/GalvBayInvasives/Species/Photos/LISI_2307079.jpg
Susie
on Jan 14, 2014
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Upon further reflection and could not get it out of my mind that they look a lot like my privet/Ligustrium seed heads off my female plants. Did the plants have any leaves on them? Was the plant more of a tree or a shrub? Okay do the berries have any pits?
The Garden Frog with C Renee
on Jan 14, 2014
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possibly ... Salal (Gaultheria shallon)
D A-z
on Jan 14, 2014
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Looks like privet berries but privet is evergreen. Hard to tell without seeing the leaves and flower.
Michelle Eliker
on Jan 14, 2014
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I think it is a type of privet also-- we have some of those here on property berries and branches look just like those, I just don't know what they are called. Def. are not mulberries I have a mulberry tree, they look like blackberries
Cynthia E
on Jan 14, 2014
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take them to your local ag. center in your county,.....you don't want to eat something that is poisonious....but your local agriculture department from your county could give you some information.....please let us know what they are once you find out.....i love finding berries, crissy greens, the food that God gave to us from the woods.....just be careful.. :)
Mary C
on Jan 15, 2014
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What you have is either ligustrum sinense or ligustrum lucidum, commonly known as a Chinese Privet. It's hard to tell the difference between the two from your picture, but I think the ligustrum lucidum has shinier leaves and can grow a bit bigger, and the sinense has smaller leaves. They were brought over to be used as a hedge in the south east and are very invasive. Highly toxic to all animals except birds, who spread the seeds. http://invasive.org/browse/subinfo.cfm?sub=3035
Jill
on Jan 15, 2014
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Salal is an evergreen...and the flower bud end always shows where the petals were, as a blue berry
Doris
on Jan 15, 2014
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Thanks Everyone, It is now January and snow, the berries have started to fall of if I have not sprayed them with preservative. I also read about ink berries I wounder if I can dye material with it? I will let you know!
Cyndi Neumann
on Feb 01, 2014
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Oh, my other name here is "ByLightOfMoon" Smiles, Cyndi
Cyndi Neumann
on Feb 01, 2014
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