Nope, Oriental. Celastrus orbiculatus. American has the fruit dangling from the ends of the branches, not along the branch like your picture. WW

Peter, There is a native bittersweet vine as well as a non-native asiatic bittersweet. The two vines are apparently rather similar in appearance and have similar fruit. They can be separated by the location of the fruit on the vine, but you'll have to look up the difference in your field guide because right now I can't recall exactly what the difference between them is. I do know that American Bittersweet is far less common than asiatic bittersweet in all of the places I have looked. In fact, I have never seen a wild American Bittersweet, whereas Asiatic Bittersweet is quite common and in fact a very dominant invasive plant in many areas. I have seen areas of many acres of land almost completely covered by Asiatic Bittersweet and supporting little other vegetation. It may be that American Bittersweet fruit is more readily eaten by birds than the fruit of ASiatic Bittersweet, or it might be false advertising. A think that a lot of what you read in many seed and plant catalogs is copied from another catalog or simply made up - read catalogs with a grain of salt.

Not a conifer, just a nondescript looking thing like Ash or Basswood. The vine looks like a Boa Constrictor squeezing the trunk.

Hello Blossom, I don't have any vines to give away, but I usually find wild grapevines growing along the railroad trestles. You know, the track overpasses that go over the roads. I usually find lots of wild grapevine hanging down all over almost reaching the sidewalks, so I just trim them back a little for my use. I live in Glendale, but my neice lives in Waukesha. I'm not real familiar with Waukesha, so I couldn't tell you where to find the overpasses there. Good hunting and great gardening.