chemocurl, Thank you for the link. kchd, Thanks for your sweet response and kind offerings. I live in Texas (zone 8B). I am pretty new to gardening and I do not have much varieties to offer as I am a very new gardener and just planted few fruit trees and have purchased some Vaccinium seeds. Currently I have Vaccinium vitis (Lingonberry) and Vaccinium ovalifolium (Alaska blueberry, early blueberry, oval-leaf bilberry, oval-leaf blueberry, and oval-leaf huckleberry) seeds to share with you, if you are interested. Or if you have some specific plant variety in mind, please let me know and I will search in my local nursery to see if I can find for you. Thank you for offering me some seedlings of Vaccinium arboretum for me. Please email me how can I get them. Thanks, in advance, for your kind offerings.

md, Having grown up in UCLA(upper corner of lower Alabama), I'll recommend you look at photos of V.stamineum (deerberry) and V.arboreum (sparkleberry/farkleberry) as probable candidates. The larger-statured ones are probably V.arboreum - and we have that one up here in the frigid northland of KY, as well - but have not noticed deerberry here - though it was very common throughout the piney woods where I grew up.

Thanks for the replies, lucky_p, trianglejohn, and gonebananas. Based on a little more research, I think the plant is question is indeed the deerberry--for several reasons: 1) The leaves do not have any yellow resin spots on them. 2) Whereas "huckleberries" have 10 seeds apiece, these berries have a lot more. 3) The seeds are no larger than those of blueberries. 4) I have never seen these berries get any darker. 5) The undersides of the leaves are "glaucous," which is one characteristic of deerberry plants. 6) In my state, supposedly only about 8 (mostly mountainous) counties have the "huckleberry," and the closest county is about 30 miles away. So apparently it's never been spotted in my county. I wish I had paid attention to what color the flowers were in the spring, but regardless, it seems pretty obvious that these berries are deerberries. I'm glad to finally know what these bushes are! :) Thanks again.

Oh man, I never realized how many similarities to berry bushes there were! I of all people should've remembered to take a flower shot in the spring....sorry about that guys! I do know that they are definately NOT shiny blueberry, Darrow's Blueberry because the leaves are larger, and the berry is off on those two. It's not a Deer Berry because the flowers are different, and Sparkleberry / Farkleberry, the leaves on the are too oval-ish So what I do remember and from your descriptions here I would definately say this plant is from the vaccinium species, not the rose flowered ones. If I remember correctly I believe the leaves turn a reddish color in the fall.