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Plant ID if you can...

20 years ago

Last weekend we visited the Royal Botanical Gardens near Hamilton Ontario.

Behind the nature center in the Arboretum, in amongst the native plants, shrubs and trees, was this plant that my husband thought was pokeweed. I wish I had photographed it now b/c when we came home I looked it up and although the fruit pannacle appeared similar there were distinct differences as well. On pokeweed the berries are on separate tiny stalks on the pannacle and are spaced apart from eachother. On this plant (which was about 6 feet tall) the berries on the pannicle were squished tightly together and stuck right ONTO the pannicle like corn on a cob. Each pannicle was about 4-6" long. The unripe berries were a mid-purple while the riper ones were a blackish purple. Each berry looked like a flattened raspberry (a bumpy looking round button) only slightly smaller than a grocery store raspberry and it took some chiselling with my fingernail to pry the berry off the pannicle from between it's brothers and sisters. I didn't look at the foliage at all since I thought my hubby knew what the plant was, so sorry, no description of foliage.

Any ideas?

Barb

southern Ontario, CANADA

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