Poisonous Berry Looking Bush

[dancer31501]

Hello,

I have a shrub/bush along my fence I want to know if you can show me picture of bad Berry bushes. The vine at the bottom is puple, green leaves, the berries are like an egg plant color and the inside is like a popleish color any clues!!

Thanks

Amanda

 

[Birdmomjb]

Sounds like polk weed. The berrys and leaves are toxic but I have never known a horse to eat them. I don't know if it grows that far north or not.

Jan

 

[runamuk]

Hello,

I have a shrub/bush along my fence I want to know if you can show me picture of bad Berry bushes. The vine at the bottom is puple, green leaves, the berries are like an egg plant color and the inside is like a popleish color any clues!!

Thanks

Amanda

It could be nightshade which is quite toxic. There are several varieties.

http://www.bio.brandeis.edu/fieldbio/Edibl...Nightshade.html

 

[Brandi*]

Yes the only one I know of around my area would be nightshade. We have had cows eat it and get sick but the horses have never touched it that I know of. I walk our pasture ever so often to make sure none has sprouted up. It likes shady, border areas.

 

[dancer31501]

Thank you so much going to try to get a pic of it and take the bush down!!

 

[RainSong]

SO THAT's what that was... are Nightshade flowers dark purple with yellow "beaks"?

We had one of these in the backyard at my grandmother's place. I loved looking at them but my mother made blasted sure we KNEW it was poisonous. The berries on ours started out green, and turned red like the ones from the link above.

It was a pretty scrubby plant, growing on the fence... maybe knee high to me now, so what 2ft ? Not sure.

 

[runamuk]

SO THAT's what that was... are Nightshade flowers dark purple with yellow "beaks"?

We had one of these in the backyard at my grandmother's place. I loved looking at them but my mother made blasted sure we KNEW it was poisonous. The berries on ours started out green, and turned red like the ones from the link above.

It was a pretty scrubby plant, growing on the fence... maybe knee high to me now, so what 2ft ? Not sure.

Yep pretty purple flowers and red berries on a vine. are the type we often see around here. The one with the photos is often called belladonna or deadly nightshade and it is more shrub like.