In the fall, it dies back to the ground.

Sep 10, We recently bought a house in central Maryland and this tree is in our backyard, and we have no idea what kind it is.

It's about 50' tall, has clusters of smooth-edged leaves at the end of alternating stems, and small (maybe 1/4 to 1/2") dark purple oval-shaped berries. Callicarpa dichotoma, purple beautyberry, Zones If you have room for only one beautyberry in your garden, consider this one.

Graceful, arching branches are loaded with violet fruits in late summer into fall. The berries are smaller than those of American beautyberry, and cluster on top of the stems rather than encircling them. purple, bitter fruits with a distinctive white ‘bloom’ on the skin, sometimes used to make sloe gin. Very thorny common hedgerow shrub or tree.

Buckthorn Rhamnus catharticus A common, spined, hedgerow plant, with distinctive leaf veins that curve in towards the mid- rib. Small black berries are arranged in whorls around and along the branches. Winterberry shrubs have a mature size of 6 to 10 feet tall and wide and have leathery dark, green leaves that turn yellow and purple in the fall.

The National Institutes of Health says that snake berries from the Duchesnea species are not poisonous.

They like growing in wet soil, prefer full sun or part shade, and are hardy in zones 3 through 9. Japanese Flowering Crabapple (Malus floribunda) – Deciduous Trees with Ornamental BerriesEstimated Reading Time: 8 mins. Avoid green berries as they may make you sick. Huckleberry Dark blue or purple-black Small, round berries, resembling a blueberry Shrub grows in dense thickets approximately four-feet tall; flowers are bell-shaped; leaves turn bronze or reddish purple in the fall Found tree removal bloomsburg pa in the Pacific Northwestern and Northeastern regions, especially onFile Size: KB.

Tiny leaves, oval to spatula-shaped (green or reddish-purple) Sharps spines /thorns Bright red berries (fall) Potential Look-Alikes: none, easy to identify. Locations: Prevalent in the Palos region and some areas of the Calumet region and quickly becoming a problem in other areas.