Location is portland, oregon. Plant is not native.

I've been told the name of this plant, by one person, as yuma berry. From another (where the bush grows, but they didn't plant it. They said the lady who owned the placed and lived there before had brought with her (from england and/or other places, I think) many different unsual plants. A number of them could not be identified by those in the know about plants here), called it gooney berry.

Either or both ppl, said it was an old type berry. I'm assuming that means heirloom or rare.

I've looked online for yuma berry, but found nothing except about yuma indians. I've looked online for gooney berry, under as many spellings of it I could think of, but found nothing on any berry with that name.

It is a bush about 7 to 8 ft high and at least about as wide as I can stretch my arms out (ab 5ft 6in). would be same width going otherway too. Don't know the circumference. The small, drooping white or greenish-white flowers start blooming in april or may (sorry, no pic of that). The oblong, smooth-skinned berries start developing, green first, in may or june, then ripen to it's peak a nice dark red in later june and july. They are edible when they are turning red, but are bit sour, and the feel of them on your teeth are like biting into a green/not quite ripe banana. The berries hang seperately on its own stem, yet clustered together.

In flower, the bush is loaded with blossums, and then when berries develop, the bush is covered with the hanging "clusters." The berry itself is about 3/4 " long and about 1/2" wide. With the stem it is about 2 & 1/2" long.

When at their peek ripeness, they are very sweey and a bump could drop them off the branch.

There is one seed in each berry and is an odd one. They are just a little shorter than 3/4' long and about 3/16" wide at it's widest point in the middle, and about 1/16" wide at the points on each end. There are eight ridges and eight grooves running length-wise on each seed.

I have some pics of a removed branch with a few berries left on it, some berries and seeds. These pics are when the berries were past their prime ripeness but still quite edible and very sweet; so they will be a bit wrinkley.

Before anyone jumps to any conclusions, they are not goji/wolfberry nor barberry. I looked thru all those.

I didn't upload them to this site, cuz they are too many kb each. The links I give will take you directly to each pic on photobucket. copy/paste the urls.

Yumaberrybranch

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v677/Maechii/Plants/Yumaberrybranch.jpg

Yumaberryleavescloserup

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v677/Maechii/Plants/Yumaberryleavescloserup.jpg

Yumaberriesandseeds

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Yumaberries

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v677/Maechii/Plants/Yumaberries.jpg

Yumaberryseeds

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v677/Maechii/Plants/Yumaberryseeds.jpg