THAT'S IT!!!!!!!!!!!!1

The picture in the first link is dead on.
Also the description in the uconn site is very accurate.

The berries, BTW, are not really fleshy. I cut one open and it has a hard
seed
inside.

Anyhow, here are more pictures of mine for comparison.

http://www.panix.com/~nradisch/berriescut.jpg
http://www.panix.com/~nradisch/leavesbottom.jpg
http://www.panix.com/~nradisch/leavestop.jpg

Thanks you everyone for helping me with this mystery.

Neil


"Leon Fisk" wrote in message
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Hi Neil,

I may have found it. Sapphire Berry or Asiatic Sweetleaf
(symplocos paniculata). See the following links and see what
you think.

http://www.keystonetree.com/saphire.jpg

http://www.esveld.nl/htmldiaen/s/sypani.htm

http://ridgwaydb.mobot.org/kemperweb....asp?code=T710

http://www.hort.uconn.edu/plants/s/sympan/sympan1.html

It is an import from China and Japan. Makes it hard to find
in our native books

You can do your own Google search using the latin name if
you want to explore this further. I didn't find very many
images of it...

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Leon Fisk
Grand Rapids MI/Zone 5b
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