By Somhairle
Renfrewshire, Scotland
Any idea what this is?
A friend noticed these berries while wondering in the Highlands. They are wild and I am not sure if they have strayed from a garden or if they are wild berries.
Any ideas?
- 1 Sep, 2022
Answers
so do some dogwoods, Cornus sanguinea being one.
1 Sep, 2022
Thanks, Owdboggy and Seaburngirl. I am assuming it is unsafe to eat these?
1 Sep, 2022
Until a positive id is made, yes.
1 Sep, 2022
Could this be elderberry?
1 Sep, 2022
Still would need a clearer image to decide.Sorry.Elder has slightly serrated leaf edges.
1 Sep, 2022
the berry arrangement looks wrong for elderberry. Sorry.
2 Sep, 2022
The leaves look right for wild elderberry, to me.
3 Sep, 2022
Tugbrethil, they were in the wild. In the Scottish Highlands quite high and remote.
3 Sep, 2022
Tug you probably have different variety where you are!
The leaves don't look like the wild elderberry we have here.
3 Sep, 2022
It's hard to see, but the leaves looked opposite, pinnately compound, and lightly serrated, and the only berry that I know of that has that leaf arrangement and type of berry cluster branching is elderberry. The ones that grow wild in northern Arizona are more strongly serrated, but the species has a wide range, and is highly variable.
14 Nov, 2022
There are a fair number of shrubs which produce black berries so not easy to tell from the image. Viburnums of some sorts do. It could also be Aronia, Chokeberry, but then again....................
1 Sep, 2022