"ratSenoL" wrote in message
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| (Babberney) wrote in message
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| On 15 Dec 2002 17:00:51 -0800, (ratSenoL)
| wrote:
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| Anyone know what the evergreen tree/bush, which looks a lot like
a
| ficus benjamani but with tiny grape-like clusters of purple-black
| fruit, growing along the greenbelt is? Most seemed to be
| multitrunked, with very light bark and rather glossy dark green
| leaves. (I didn't have my camera today, and I don't have a web
site
| to post a photo to anyway.) I didn't see anything like it in
| Wasowski's NATIVE PLANTS. Is it native, naturalized, undesirable
for
| any particular reason? Are the fruits eaten by birds or animals?
|
| Just looking for native species with interesting textures,
colors,
| and/or wildlife attracting properties.
| I'll second (third?) the opinions already expressed. A former
| coworker called it the "second-biggest weed in TX." Biggest being
.. .
| . care to guess?
|
| Thanks for the responses; although somewhat pretty, it doesn't sound
| like something I want in my landscape.

We had one, two stories tall, that had to be taken down, here before
we were. They do invade the creekbeds and crowd out the native
understory, but the berries produced by our specimen did attract the
most beautiful flocks of cedar waxwings twice a year.