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What kind of berry?

Mike

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CJD3

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Does it look like this?

Cascara
Rhamnus purshiana

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I can't make out your leaves.

"Cascara-Rhamnus purshiana--Not edible. May cause stomach ache or diarrhea. Berries black, numerous. July-Aug. Tree with alternate glossy green leaves, strongly viened. Common in developed area, uncommon in woods. Commonhouse. The gray bark of this tree contains a powerful laxative, and the berries contain smaller amounts of this same property"

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And these are Elderberries

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Jamie

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looks like Hackberry to me. Celtis Occidentalis. bark on hackberry tree is very distinctive with small high ridges, medium grey in color.
 

antiqucycle

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Choke cherry or wild cherry. they grow on trees. the above picture of the elderberry is right, they grow on a bush.

choke cherries supposed make cattle sick. or is it horses sick. After a real windy night at the beginning of archery, every deer came to one place with a lot of these cherry trees and went nuts eating them.
 

RedCloud

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I'm checking to make sure. The leaves are throwing me off. The bark says cherry I'm just not sure what kind or if it's edible. I'll let you know tomorrow for sure.
 

Mike

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Nailed it. These trees are along a chain link fence. There probably a hundred trees.
 

RedCloud

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The guy I asked told me it looked like some sort of mulberry and I knew that wasn't right so, I went looking and figured it out lol. Sounds like from reading they should all be cut down lol.
 

giles

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The guy I asked told me it looked like some sort of mulberry and I knew that wasn't right so, I went looking and figured it out lol. Sounds like from reading they should all be cut down lol.

And then treated with something. Because just cutting them down will actually help make them stronger. (That's what I got from reading the link)