Dark Berries

[H20fwler]

I have a lot of whatever this is growing just inside the edge of the woods, clumps of dark berries on them?

 

[ksgobbler]

Coralberry? Cant see much in the pic

 

[Apple Junkie]

My guess is a buckthorn of some sort, most likely European Buckthron. I've got a lot of it.

https://gobotany.newenglandwild.org/species/rhamnus/cathartica/

 

[MickT]

Is it on a vine or bush? Looks like there is some green briar in you picture and they have clusters of small, round, usually dark blue berries.


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[H20fwler]

Is it on a vine or bush? Looks like there is some green briar in you picture and they have clusters of small, round, usually dark blue berries.


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They are trees around ten-twelve feet tall, I took the pic looking down from the tree stand.
I'll see if I can get a better pic up close to show berries and leaves better.

 

[Native Hunter]

I'm with Mick T on this one. That looks like a Greenbrier vine (Smilax species). They can climb higher than 12 feet and have the little dark berries.

 

[homerj]

It looks like the bush/tree in question is the last or at least one of the last species with green leaves? Late green leaves, numerous dark berries = most likely european or glossy buckthorn.

 

[H20fwler]

Mick T and Native are right it is a vine. I was looking at them from up in the stand and they looked like trees from there to me.

If it is greenbrier is that a good or a bad thing?

 

[MickT]

Green briar (smilax genus) is a good thing. Highly preferred browse, year round and pretty much everywhere. I’ve seen the vines eaten back to the size of a pencil.

If I find it running up a junk tree or a thicket of it in the understory, I cut down the junk tree and release it to increase the biomass.


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[H20fwler]

Green briar (smilax genus) is a good thing. Highly preferred browse, year round and pretty much everywhere. I’ve seen the vines eaten back to the size of a pencil.

If I find it running up a junk tree or a thicket of it in the understory, I cut down the junk tree and release it to increase the biomass.

Thanks for the info!