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Old 02-08-2016, 09:12 PM posted to rec.gardens
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Default ID needed - red berry bush

On Tue, 02 Aug 2016 14:21:57 -0400, Don Wiss
wrote:

On Mon, 01 Aug 2016, Brooklyn1 wrote:

Looks like the type of wild red raspberry bush that grows along
roadway shoulders here, small berries but still quite edible albeit
large seeds...


They are called wineberries. It does look like it. The problem is the
posted picture doesn't show any full leaves.

https://www.nps.gov/plants/alien/pub...antic/ruph.htm


They are aggressive, the OP should remove it from his bed and
transplant it in a hedgerow or some such location where it receives
full sun and he doesn't mind deadly thorns, the wild song birds will
be most appreciative. I'd not leave it with the ground cover lest the
ground cover becomes eradicated by those large shady leaves. Thse
berry plants are tenacious, have deep roots, and once establishes are
very difficult to remove without removing everything else.