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[Lucky Pittman <lucky.pittman@murraystate.edu>]

At 01:01 PM 9/11/2003 -0500, you wrote:
> While I'm writing, there is something local that really looks like 
> elderberry (covered with berries that look like black elderberry berries). 
> I'm reasonably familiar with elderberry and everything about the plants 
> (clumps, leaves, berries) looks right. Is there any chance of it being 
> some other evil/dangerous plant masquerading as elderberry? I remember 
> hearing about "porcelainberry" being mistaken for elderberry (I don't 
> think that they really look similar at all) and got to wondering whether 
> eating the berries that I found would be a mistake.
Only other one around here that I can think of that might remotely be 
mistaken for elderberry is Aralia spinosa, Devil's walkingstick, but it's 
thorny enough that I wouldn't think one would make that mistake but once.





Lucky Pittman
USDA Zone 6
Hopkinsville, KY