Many dissimilar species of bush produce berries or berry - corresponding fruit , so identify them accurately can be challenging at time . The most vulgar berry - producing landscape painting shrubs include blackberry bush and raspberries , currants , Sambucus nigra and Viburnum species . Identifying the shrub species is important to understanding how to in good order like for the shrubs , as well as to know whether the berries are edible , inedible or even poisonous . Whether you ’re attempting to key out a bush with Berry that ’s growing in your grounds or in the wild , you ’ll need to study a number of characteristics for determine the right species .

Step 1

Identify shrubs with berries by their size . The disgraceful partridgeberry ( Lonicera involucrata ) and red currant ( Ribes sativum ) bush are 5 to 7 human foot tall , while the thimbleberry ( Rubus parviflorus ) is only 3 to 6 feet tall and the malodour currant ( Ribes bracteosum ) gain only 3 foot in altitude .

Step 2

meditate the size of the parting to name the berry - grow shrub . The gall-berry holly ( Ilex glabra ) has evergreen , lance - form leaves that are leathered and about 1 ½ inches long , while the Amur honeysuckle ( Lonicera maackii ) has deciduous , ellipse to elliptical leaves that are calendered green and 3 ½ inches long . The mapleleaf genus Viburnum ( Viburnum acerifolium ) has maple - like leaf with toothed edges , three lobes each and velvety , hairy undersurface .

Step 3

Notice how the leave of absence are arranged along the shank to identify the berry shrubs . The white mulberry ( Morus alba ) has glossy dark - light-green leafage that are dress in an switch style along the stems , while the highbush cranberry ( Viburnum trilobum ) has vivid - green leaf arranged opposite one another in pair along the stems .

Step 4

await at the flowers to determine the shrub species . The golden currant bush ( Ribes aureum ) has fragrant , golden - jaundiced , doorbell - form flower , the highbush blackberry ( Rubus alleheniensis ) blooms in showy white flower that are almost an column inch wide , and raspberry bush shrubs have ashen to pinkish , 1 - column inch - diam flowers with five petals and five sepal in each flower .

Step 5

key out the shrub by depend at the berry color . The sapphire berry shrub ( Symplocos paniculata ) create sapphire - spicy berries in fall , the elderberry ( Sambucus candadensis ) gestate orotund clusters of deep - violet fruits , the northern burry ash ( Xanthoxylum americanum ) produce small reddish - dark-brown berry from August until October , and the Ilex glabra holly has tiny ignominious berries in September through May .

Tip

Also wait at the berry constitution to determine the shrub ’s identity . Some shrubs , such as the red currant and honeysuckle shrub , give rise actual berry fruits , while others have berry - like fruits that are really totality of tiny drupe , like blackberries , raspberries and elderberries .

Warning

Do n’t mistake the red currant shrub with the northerly prickly ash , both of which produce red berries in mid- to late summertime that hold on through the fall . The red currant bush grow to only 8 feet grandiloquent , while the northerly splenetic ash can grow up to 25 substructure in acme . Unlike the red currant ’s wide-eyed leaves , the northerly prickly ash tree shrub has compound leaves comprised of five to 11 toothed and egg - shaped cusp .

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