Bushes red berries: Garden Shrubs with Red Berries

Garden Shrubs with Red Berries

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Updated on 07/12/21

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Shrubs with berries can be a wonderful addition to your garden. They can provide you or the local wildlife with food, and can liven up your garden’s color palette with bright shades of red. Not all berries are edible, however. Learn to tell the difference between ornamental, inedible berries and edible berries, and learn which plants are safe for you, your family, your pets, and your backyard birds and squirrels.

Here are seven garden shrubs with red berries.

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  This species of holly (Ilex verticillata) has the brightest red berries of all. If you’ve grown holly, you know it’s necessary to have three shrubs total (two males and one female) in order to pollinate for berry production; if a female shrub is not pollinated it won’t produce berries. “Red Sprite” is a good semi-dwarf variety that grows up to 5 feet tall, with good berry production. The birds will flock to your holly for the berries that may linger through spring… but alas, these berries should not be eaten by humans or pets as they can cause gastrointestinal distress and other reactions. This holly is deciduous and not evergreen, often the berries will remain after the leaves fall off.

  • USDA Growing Zones: 3 to 9, cold and heat tolerant
  • Berries: Edible to birds, mildly toxic to humans, cats, dogs
  • Sun Exposure: Partial sun to full sun
  • Soil Needs: Rich, moist, well-drained slightly acidic soil
  • Mature Size: 3′ to 5′ tall and wide

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  Red Currants

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  The red currant bush (Ribes rubrum) has translucent, glassy looking red berries that make a delicious jelly! The tart berries are also a tasty snack for songbirds. The berries also come in a white variety that is somewhat sweeter than the red ones. Native to Europe, this shrub is widely cultivated for its fruit, which is rich in vitamin C. The famous Linzer torte of Austria typically uses red currant jelly for its filling. Red currents are rich in vitamins B and C, and like most berries, full of beneficial fiber.

  • USDA Growing Zones: 3 to 5 (very cold hardy)
  • Berries: Edible
  • Sun Exposure: Morning sun, afternoon shade
  • Soil Needs: Rich, moist, well-drained soil with added compost
  • Mature Size: 3′ to 5′ tall

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  Red chokeberry (Aronia arbutifolia) is native to eastern Canada and the eastern and central United States. With its white flowers in spring, glossy red berries in summer, and gorgeous red autumn foliage, it has three seasons of visual interest. The flowers in spring attract butterflies. The fleshy berries attract birds from late fall through winter. The shrub, akin to a small tree, is upright and tends to put out suckers. The berries have a sour, astringent taste, used to make jams, wine, candy, syrup and other foods. They can be eaten raw but most people find them a bit too sour to enjoy in their natural state.

  • USDA Growing Zones: 4 to 9, cold and heat tolerant
  • Berries: Edible to birds
  • Sun Exposure: Partial sun to full sun
  • Soil Needs: Rich, moist, well-drained slightly acidic soil
  • Mature Size: 5′ to 10′ high, 3′ to 5′ wide

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  Linden Viburnum

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  This deciduous deer-resistant shrub, native to eastern Asia, was introduced to the mid-Atlantic states in the early 1800s. The Linden viburnum (Viburnum dilatatum), also known as linden arrowwood, is named for the leaves which resemble linden tree leaves. It puts out clusters of small white flowers in spring followed by dense clusters of red berries in autumn, which gradually turn a blackish red color in winter. Birds eat the berries in winter. In autumn the leaves turn shades of red and copper. There are various cultivars which differ somewhat in shape and form, including “Iroquois,” “Oneida,” “Michael Dodge,” and “Mt. Airy.” It grows somewhat aggressively, forming dense thickets quickly if not controlled, and is considered an invasive species in Massachusetts.

  • USDA Growing Zones: 5a to 8b, somewhat cold tolerant
  • Berries: Edible to birds
  • Sun Exposure: Partial shade to full sun
  • Soil Needs: Well-drained slightly acidic soil, tolerant of clay soils
  • Mature Size: 8′ to 10′ high and wide

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  This beautiful upright shrub is native to much or Europe, hence its other common name European Spindle. The spindle tree (Euonymus europaeus) bears red fruits attractive to birds and the birds help this plant reseed widely so it has a reputation for being somewhat invasive. The small white flowers in spring are unremarkable, but the colorful pink-red capsules that open to reveal orange seeds are showy and distinctive in autumn, along with the shift of the leaves’ colors, ranging from yellow to reddish purple.

  • USDA Growing Zones: 4 to 7, cold tolerant
  • Berries: Edible to birds
  • Sun Exposure: Partial shade to full sun
  • Soil Needs: Moist, well-drained soil; tolerates alkaline soil
  • Mature Size: 12′ to 20′ high, 2′ to 3′ feet wide

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  Cotoneaster

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  Cotoneaster shrubs hail from China, Europe, temperate Asia and North Africa. They have been cultivated in various regions for their value as a larval plant food for butterflies and as a nectar source for bees. They make an attractive landscape shrub, are strong and hardy, and the red berries attract blackbirds and thrushes. Some of the more popular cultivars are “Coral Beauty,” “Queen of Carpets,” “Juliette,” and “Pink Champagne.” They come in various sizes and forms also, from low-growing ground covers to tall hedges. Most of them bear white flowers in spring and feature colorful autumn foliage as the red berries appear.

  • USDA Growing Zones: 5 to 8
  • Berries: Edible to birds, but slightly toxic to humans
  • Sun Exposure: Partial sun to full sun
  • Soil Needs: Rich, moist, well-drained soil; tolerant of acid or alkaline soils
  • Mature Size: varies with variety (ground cover to 6′ hedge)

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  Strawberry Tree

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  This broadleaf evergreen shrub has four seasons of visual interest for the garden. Native to France, Ireland and the Mediterranean region, the strawberry tree (Arbutus unedo) is also known as Dalmatian strawberry or cane apples. It’s a popular garden shrub for its attractive berries, but these fruits, while edible, are rather bland and mealy. The strawberry tree develops an attractive twisted and gnarled in appearance as it matures. It displays fragrant bell-shaped white flowers in the fall. If bees pollinate the flowers, they will form the fruits that appear in winter, first yellow, then red. This is a very pest and disease resistant shrub as well.

  • USDA Growing Zones: 7 to 10 (not cold hardy)
  • Berries: Edible to birds
  • Sun Exposure: Partial sun to full sun
  • Soil Needs: Rich, moist, slightly acidic, well-drained soil
  • Mature Size: 6′ to 15′ tall

When choosing shrubs or trees with ornamental berries, it’s important to determine whether any parts of the plant are toxic and might be harmful to your family, pets or local wildlife. A berry or fruit that is edible for birds may not be safe for other animals, so do some research before buying and planting.

18 Shrubs with Red Berries to Consider Growing

by Jennifer Poindexter

Do you need new shrubs around your home? Would you like a shrub which produces color or even beautiful berries?

You’ve landed in the right spot. I’m going to walk you through a few options for shrubs which produce red berries and add a vibrant splash of color during certain parts of the year. I’ll share with you which planting zones and growing conditions the shrubs grow best in. 

Don’t feel overwhelmed when trying to narrow down your options for this style of bush. Instead, utilize this list and tips to help you choose the perfect shrubs for your planting area. 

Here are your options for shrubs which produce red berries.

1. Red Heavenly Bamboo

If you’re in the market for a mid-size shrub that produces red berries and has vibrantly colored leaves, red heavenly bamboo could be for you.

This shrub grows to be between four and eight feet tall. It prefers nutrient dense soil that’s also well-draining. You should grow red heavenly bamboo in full sunlight and in planting zones six through nine.

2. Buffalo Berry

The buffalo berry bush has foliage which reminds me of sage. However, the shrub produces vibrant red berries. This bush is hardy in zones two through nine, prefers full sun, and isn’t picky about soil types. 

Be mindful that this shrub can grow anywhere from three feet tall to twenty feet tall. Ensure you have the room for it prior to planting.

3. Red Elderberry

Elderberry bushes produce gorgeous fruit that’s edible. This would be a great choice for someone who is trying to grow an edible landscape.

If you’d like to grow red elderberries around your home, be sure you plant them in full sunlight and well-draining soil. These bushes are hardy in planting zones three through seven.

4. Butcher’s Broom

The butcher’s broom shrub is small in comparison to some of the other choices mentioned on this list. This plant only reaches heights of one to three feet and is a hardy option for planting zones seven through nine. 

If you choose to plant this shrub, ensure it’s surrounded by shade and any type of well-draining soil. This is a drought-tolerant and sturdy choice of bush to add to your landscape.

5. Snake Berries

This next plant may not be considered a shrub by everyone, but it deserves a mention on this list. The plant is known as snake berries or sometimes called Indian mock strawberries. The reason being is the plant looks just like a strawberry plant.

However, the berries are round and have small bumps all over them. If interested, you can grow this plant in full to partial sunlight. It’s hardy in planting zones five through nine.

6. Red Chokeberry Bush

Chokeberries can put on quite the show. This shrub has bright green foliage and produces dark red berries. During the fall, the leaves become a rich red.

If you’re interested in growing the red chokeberry bush, it’s hardy in planting zones four through nine. This shrub can grow to be six to twelve feet tall. However, it needs rich soil that’s well-draining.

7. Winterberry

The winterberry bush is another great plant for many landscapes. This shrub grows to be approximately twenty-four feet tall and twelve feet around.

Winterberry thrives in planting zones four through eight. It naturally grows in bogs, so try to recreate this in your growing space. The shrub can handle full to partial sunlight. However, it does need moist soil that’s also acidic.

8. Hobblebush

The hobblebush is a smaller shrub that likes to spread out lower to the ground. It grows to become approximately six feet tall. 

The bush produces green foliage, white blooms, and red berries. It likes damp soil that’s sandy and acidic. This plant is hardy in planting zones six and higher.

9. Red Gooseberry Bush

Sometimes people like to grow shrubs for their beauty. Other times, they want to grow them for their functionality. This might be the case if you grow red gooseberries.

You can grow this plant in full to partial sunlight. However, the more sunlight the plant receives the more the plant should produce. This plant is hardy in zones three through eight.

10. Sumac

Sumac is sometimes considered a bush and, in some cases, a small tree. Whichever category you place it in, it could still make a great addition to your home.

This shrub is hardy in planting zones five through eight. It isn’t picky as far as soil goes as long as it drains adequately. This plant can also handle full to partial sunlight.

11. Barberry

Barberry is a smaller shrub which comes in an array of colors ranging from green to dark red. It also produces elongated, small red berries. If you’re interested in adding this shrub to your home or garden, it’s hardy in planting zones four through eight. 

This plant prefers loamy, well-draining soil and can handle full to partial sunlight. However, the warmer the climate, the more shade the shrub needs.

12. Cotoneaster

Cotoneaster is an eye-catching shrub. It matures to heights ranging from five to seven feet tall and is hardy in planting zones five through eight.

If you need a shrub with deep green foliage and red berries, you don’t want to overlook this option. It can handle most soils as long as they’re well-draining, and the plant needs full to partial sunlight as well.

13. Raspberry

Raspberry bushes are another plant most people grow for their functionality instead of their looks. However, with the right pruning, this plant could be a great selection for an edible landscape.

This style of plant can grow to be between five and six feet tall. It needs full sunlight, well-draining soil, and it’s vital that the soil is nutrient dense. Raspberries are a great choice because they’re hardy in planting zones three through ten.

14. Redcurrants

Do you want a bush that creates both beauty and provides a functional product? You should consider growing redcurrants.

Redcurrants are wonderful for making jam or using in smoothies. If you’re interested in growing this plant, it’s hardy in zones three through eight. It only needs full sun and nutrient rich, well-draining soil.

15. Tatarian Honeysuckle Bush

The Tatarian honeysuckle bush has green foliage and colorful blooms. The blooms will eventually produce red berries. It can become invasive, so be mindful as to how and where you plant this bush. 

This honeysuckle bush can grow in full sun or shade, and it isn’t particular about soil types. It’s also hardy in planting zones three through eight.

16. Bittersweet Nightshade

The bittersweet nightshade can be grown vertically as a vine or pruned to be a bush. This plant will grow to be between two and eight feet tall depending upon how you prune.

If you’re interested in growing bittersweet nightshade, it’s hardy in planting zones four and higher. It isn’t particular about growing conditions as it’s considered invasive in many areas. It’s also toxic so take this into consideration prior to planting.

17. Bunchberry

The bunchberry bush looks very quaint. It produces leaves in groups of five. From there, small blooms appear in the center.

When growing this plant, ensure it’s planted where it will receive full shade or only morning light. It needs rich, well-draining soil as well. This is a hardy bush for planting zones two through seven.

18. Wild Coffee

The wild coffee bush has elongated leaves which produce small red berries. This is an edible plant but also makes a wonderful option to border your garden areas.

If you choose to grow this shrub, ensure it’s only planted in shaded growing spaces. The foliage can’t handle full sunlight. It also must have well-draining soil. Wild coffee is only hardy in planting zones nine through eleven.

This concludes our list of shrubs which produce red berries. Whether you’re looking for a shrub that produces fruit you can eat or a basic bush to add a splash of color during certain parts of the year, this list should have you covered.

Be sure to review the facts shared about each plant. Ensure you plant in the right planting zone and provide the right growing conditions. Hopefully, this list will inspire you as you’re creating a new look for your landscape.

More About Shrubs with Red Berries

https://gardeningsolutions. ifas.ufl.edu/plants/trees-and-shrubs/shrubs/wild-coffee.html

https://plants.ces.ncsu.edu/plants/cornus-canadensis/

https://extension.umn.edu/fruit/growing-raspberries-home-garden

15 Types of Red Berries that Grow on Shrubs and Trees

Red berries that grow on shrubs or trees can add a fun pop of color to any landscape design or garden. They can fill a decent amount of space and help you lower your overall landscape costs. If the trees and shrubs have edible red berries, you get the bonus of healthy, tasty fruits. However, not all red berries are edible, so it’s important to decide which type you want before you start to shop for your new shrubs or trees.

There are dozens of reasons why someone would want to have one of these berry trees or shrubs in their yard. Very often, it’s the deep scarlet color of the berries that appear in the winter when your yard or garden lacks color that is a huge attraction. The dark green foliage contrasts sharply with the bright red coloring to help brighten up your space. Additionally, another reason is that many red berries are extremely healthy. They have a fantastic taste and come packed full of antioxidants. You can easily eat them straight from the shrub or tree or add them in desserts, salads, and cereals.

If you’re someone who is considering adding shrubs or trees that produce red berries to your yard, this is for you. We’ve rounded up several fantastic examples with pictures so you can easily pick and choose which ones will look best all year-round.

1. Red Gooseberry Bush

When you think of gooseberries, many people picture very sour, decent-sized, green berries. However, there are gooseberry shrubs that produce ripe red berries. This type of shrub will usually get about five feet tall with the correct growing conditions, and it produces a woody stem that has very sharp thorns dotting it. The leaves on this shrub feature a very light green coloring that is very bright and vibrant, and the leaves typically have three to five lobes on them.

The tart green or red berries have tiny hairs all over them with an oval shape. You can also get species of this shrub that produces yellow or white berries. Because the berries are very tart, you can easily use them in sweet or savory dishes. You can sweeten them up and pop them into a pie, or you can spice them up and create a delicious homemade gooseberry chutney with them. The fruits will have a very firm texture when they’re ripe, and you may notice light stripes running down the berries. They’re ready to pick when they get to a very deep red shade.

Groseilles – Gooseberry bush by Jopa Elleul / CC BY-NC 2.0

2. Pin Cherries

Unlike traditional cherries that are slightly larger, fuller, and can have a yellow or reddish tint to them, this cherry shrub produces very small and round red berries. These berries are much smaller in size, and you may have heard them referred to as fire cherries, red cherries, or bird cherries. The shrub can easily get as large as a small tree, and this means that it has a normal growth habit that spans between 15 and 100 feet. It has a round-topped crown  to it that makes it easy to identify if you spot it out in the woods.

The leaves on this shrub grow alternately and have a lanceolate shape to them. The stems are long, thin, and have a slightly red tint to them. Each of the bright red berries on this shrub can get less than 10mm across, and each berry has a single seed. If you’re looking for this tree out in the woods, try looking by river banks and it likes very wet and loose soil. It’s also a popular shrub to grow in parks across the United States. The cherries are edible, and they have a sweet but tart flavor profile.

Pin Cherries by Dano / CC BY 2.0

3. Hobble Bush

Also known as the American wayfaring tree, witch-hobble, or moosewood, this is a perennial shrub. The red berries will slowly fade to a black hue as they ripen during the mid-summer months. This shrub is one that is native to the eastern portions of the United States, and you’ll find it growing in swamps, along river banks, and in forests. So, this means that it likes very damp or saturated soil. It also only requires dappled sunlight to grow very well, and it works well in your landscaping design because it also produces small clusters of pretty flowers in the spring months.

This shrub is slightly larger, and it has big oval leaves on it. The leaves are serrated to add texture, and they can get between 3.9 and 7.8-inches long. Small clusters of flowers will appear first before they give way to edible red berries. The berries on this bush have a slightly sweet taste to them, and many people compared it to dates or raisins. They have an oval shape, and they measure just over a half of an inch long. After a frost hits, the berries sweeten even more.

Nearly All Stages of Hobblebush At Once by BEV Norton / CC BY-NC-ND 2.0

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Winterberry

If you want to attract birds to your yard, try these red berries. This is a deciduous shrubby plant that comes from the holly family. It produces a host of inedible red berries for humans. There is a long history of using these berries in traditional medicine, but they can also cause low blood pressure and nausea. So, this one will be purely for looks instead of for looks and eating. You’ll get a huge amount of ornamental value out of this shrub if you plant it in a landscaped garden. Under the correct growing conditions, they can easily reach between 3 and 16-feet tall.

The glossy deep green foliage on this shrub will stick around from spring until the late fall months. It has lance-shaped leaves that have a slightly serrated edge to them, and they can get up to 3.5-inches long. The red berries on this shrub last through the winter, just as the name suggests. During the winter months, the leafless branches get loaded down with bright red berries. In turn, this adds a lot of wonderful color to your winter garden. Since they drop their leaves, there is minimal cleanup associated with having this shrub in your yard.

Winterberries by liz west / CC BY 2.0

5. Red Chokeberry Bush

Chokeberries are a deciduous shrub that produce big black or red berries. Better known as Aronia berries, they have an extremely sour flavor profile to them. The most common type of chokeberry is the black chokeberry bush. However, there is a species that produces red chokeberries. The shrub can easily get between 6.5 and 13-feet tall at full maturity if you get the planting conditions right. It produces very pretty white flowers in the early spring months that contrast sharply with the green foliage. By the time summer rolls around, this shrub will have loads of berries instead.

The red berries on this tree are between 0.15 and 0.39-inches wide. You can eat the berries straight off the bush. However, the extremely sour and sharp taste is too much for most people to eat raw. They produce fall and winter berries that are okay if you break them down and sweeten them. They go well in pies or desserts with the right amount of sugar. Many people confuse this shrub with chokecherries since the fruits look similar and they both have a very strong astringent taste.

Red riot by Thomas Cizauskas / CC BY-NC-ND 2.0

6. Redcurrant

Redcurrants are a nice addition for anyone planting and maintaining a forest garden. No list of popular types of red berries would be complete without featuring this one. This berry falls into the same family classification as you get with gooseberries. This is another shrub that produces very thin stems and five-lobed leaves that are very large. The most noticeable feature of this shrub is the berries themselves. They form large clusters that hang down from the branches, and the berries are edible for both people and animals. They are slightly more tart than blackberries, and they have a hint of raspberry or rhubarb flavoring.

The translucent red berries that these shrubs produce in clusters are slightly smaller in diameter. However, each shrub can produce an impressive amount of berries. It’s not uncommon to get as much as nine pounds of berries every year from a single shrub. Plant this shrub in an area that gets partial to dappled shade. It can also do decently in deep shade, and you want to make a point to keep the soil moist but not saturated to keep the shrub thriving.

Redcurrants by henry… / CC BY-NC-ND 2.0

7. Bittersweet Nightshade

Since this plant has the name bittersweet nightshade, it shouldn’t come as a surprise to you that you really should avoid eating the red berries that it produces. Other common names for this plant include poison flower, poisonberry, and bitter nightshade. Snakeberry is another name, but you want to avoid confusing it with mock strawberries that are also called snake berries. Instead of being a shrub or a tree, this is actually a herbaceous vine that falls into the nightshade family of Solanaceae. So, this plant is actually closely related to eggplants, potatoes, and tomatoes.

The red berries this plant produces actually look like tiny red tomatoes. They look soft and juicy, but you should never eat them. They’re actually poisonous for humans, so you want to keep this vine well away from your pets or kids to avoid accidents. The berries are green when they first appear, and they slowly turn orange before fading to a fiery red color. It grows best in wetlands or by creeks, so it needs very moist soil that never dries out but drains nicely. It does well in full sun to partial shade, and you’ll get berries every year into the fall months.

Bittersweet Nightshade by Quinn Dombrowski / CC BY-SA 2.0

8. Peruvian Pepper

Unlike the traditional bell pepper that has green coloring and a mild taste, this tree produces red berries. Other names include the false pepper, American pepper, or the California pepper tree. It’s an evergreen tree species that gives you smaller berries in a red hue that have a surprisingly peppery taste to them. The identifying features on this tree are the fern-like pinnate leaves with small white flowers. It also has smaller berry-like drupes that produce pink woody seeds or peppery red seeds. The fruit trees can grow in very large clusters and produce the berries all  year-round in warmer environments.

Since it’s capable of producing red berries all year round, it shouldn’t surprise you that it prefers to be in very arid and hot environments. You can find it growing in California, Texas, Florida, Louisiana, and Arizona. It’s also popular in Australia, Peru, and South Africa. The berries from this tree are considered safe for you to eat. However, younger children can get an upset stomach if they eat a decent amount of the fruits in one sitting, so monitor them.

pepper tree berries by Darijus Strasunskas / CC BY-NC 2.0

9. American Holly Tree

Another very popular tree that produces red berries is the American Holly. This tree is an evergreen variety that produces very toxic berries with a brilliant red hue and jaggy, glossy leaves. This is the cuttings that you’ll find virtually everywhere during the Christmas season as it makes a very eye-catching centerpiece for the home. This particular species of holly can get very large, and it can easily top out at almost 100-feet tall. So, you really do have to plan accordingly when you plant it in your yard. It needs plenty of space to grow without getting crowded by structures or other plants.

However, the leaves on this tree keep their deep green coloring with the glossy look all year-round, so they’re a great addition to any yard or garden that routinely gets snow once a year. The red berries provide splashes of color when little else is growing too, so it makes a nice addition. However, just like any other berry from the IIex genus, they are toxic if humans were to consume them. You should leave them alone. Birds can eat the berries without an issue, but they can make you very sick.

American Holly – Ilex opaca, Mason Neck, Virginia by Judy Gallagher / CC BY 2. 0

10. Hawthorn Trees

The hawthorn tree is slightly smaller, and this makes it very popular in gardens and smaller landscape designs. They do have very thorny branches on them, so you do have to be careful when you work around it. They also produce red berries. Other common names for this small tree include the mayhaw, thornapple, quickthorn, and the hawberry. They do best in temperate climates, so it’s not uncommon to see this tree growing throughout the world. As a bonus, you can also eat the red berries that this tree produces. However, just like apples, you want to avoid the seeds because they can be toxic.

The features that most people will recognize on this type of tree are the short trunks. They also have very distinctive branches that spread out with leaves that get spiral arrangements on the shoots. Also, the tree’s red fruits can look like berries but they’re not. The fruit is actually a pome. So, they look very similar to how a tiny miniature apple would look rather than a rounded berry. Each tree will produce a nice amount of berries that you can pick and use however you like or eat raw.

Plenty by Elke Mader / CC BY-NC 2.0

11. Red Berry Mistletoe

Mistletoe is another plant that will produce very poisonous red berries that you want to avoid. However, it’s important to note that this plant isn’t a berry-producing tree or shrub. Instead, this plant is an actual type of parasitic plant. You’ll find it growing on shrubs and trees and leaching off them. It’s usually easy to spot the plant growing decently high up on trees, and many people mistakenly think that it’s a birds’ nest. It’s very rarely by the ground because it prefers to be much higher up in the branches of very tall trees. So, unless you have tall shrubs, you may not see it.

You’ll see smooth, small oval green leaves with small red berries. The berries do grow in smaller clusters of two to six berries each. A lot of people are very familiar with the European mistletoe species, and this plant features small green leaves and whtie berries. It’s also very popular in Christmas decorations. There is usually an upright growth manner with this parasitic plant, and it likes partial shade with a little sun every day.

Red berries and mistletoe by Mike Finn / CC BY 2.0

12. Cotoneaster

Cotoneaster is a very popular type of evergreen shrub used in landscaping designs where people want color and visual interest all year-round, including when it snows and freezes. It produces masses of dull red berries that can look very attractive. However, the berries on this plant are very highly toxic. You never want to consume them as they can make you extremely sick. Most species of this evergreen shrub are on the smaller side, and the heights range from 1.6-feet up to 16-feet tall at full maturity. Since there is such a height range, make sure you have space for the plant you pick out.

The red berries this shrub produces mimics the look of cranberry clusters. The leaves can have a range of shapes to them too, ranging from oval to lanceolate. Also, the leaves can be larger and get up to 6-inches long, depending on the shrub species. Most species willo produce thick masses of toxic red berries. However, the berry color can also be black, orange, scarlet-red, or pink. This is why you want to do a lot of research before you pick one out. You want something to be visually appealing and match your space.

Cotoneaster by stanze / CC BY-SA 2.0

13. Tatarian Honeysuckle Bush

The tatarian honeysuckle bush will produce a host of bright red berries, but you should never eat them. You can easily identify this bushy shrub by the dark green but dull leaves. They have an oval shape, and the shrub also produces tubular white to pink flowers. The flowers create a very visually-appealing look for your yard, especially in the early summer and late spring months. Since the leaves are darker and dull, the flowers really stand out and contrast against them.

LIke many shrub species in the honeysuckle family, it’s a very large flowering bush that is oval-shaped. It can easily get between 9 and 12-feet tall with the correct growing conditions. It also has a very large spread to it, so you want to ensure that you give it plenty of room to spread out when you plant it or it’ll crowd whatever you have by it. This shrub also has a very vigorous growth habit, so many people do consider it to be an invasive species. The red berries are toxic to humans, even though they look juicy and full. Accidentally ingesting these berries can lead to abdominal cramping, vomiting, and diarrhea.

Honeysuckle Lonicera tatarica by InAweofGod’sCreation / CC BY 2.0

14. Barberry

Barberry is one low-maintenance plant that is easy to maintain, so it’s a favorite with beginner gardeners. This is a shrub that you can easily find growing in most parts of the world. It gets covered with smaller red berries. Also, you should note that some species are evergreen and some are deciduous. You can identify this plant by the long shoots that it puts out, and they can get up to an impressive 13-feet tall with the correct growing conditions. The shoots also produce very small oval green leaves that grow in very tight clusters along the shoots.

This plant will produce bright yellow flowers in the early spring months, and these flowers contrast nicely with the darker foliage. Once the flowers give way, oblong red berries will take their place. The berries can be up to a centimeter long when they’re fully mature. It is possible to eat these bright red berries straight from the plant, but they do have an extremely sour taste. They’re better sweetened up and used in dessert dishes like pies or cobblers. A single plant can produce an impressive amount of berries, so you don’t need a lot of them to make an impact.

Barberries by hedera.baltica / CC BY-SA 2.0

15. Cornelian Cherry Dogwood

The final tree that produces red berries on the list is the Cornelian Cherry Dogwood. Dogwood is a very large shrub that flowers and produces long green leaves. You’ll get smaller yellow flowers in the spring and early summer months before it produces a lot of berry-like drupes on the branches. The small red berries are very shiny, and they have the same shape that a coffee bean does. When they’re ripe and you eat them, you’ll get a cross between a very sour cherry and a cranberry, so a lot of people can’t handle eating them straight off the tree without sweetening them.

Dogwood trees are native to countries in Southwestern Asia and Southern Europe. A single tree can easily get between 16 and 40-feet tall. They usually don’t have a huge spread to them though. The leaves are oblong or oval, and they can easily measure up to four-inches long and 1.5-inches wide. As a bonus, once this tree establishes itself, it doesn’t need a lot of work for you to keep it healthy, thriving, and producing a hoard of sour berries.

2012.03.20_16.56.54_IMG_6955 by Andrey Zharkikh / CC BY 2.0

Bottom Line

These 15 shrubs or trees all produce red berries. We noted which ones are safe for you to consume and which ones you want to avoid due to the berry toxicity. You can take this list and decide which ones would work well in your planting zone and landscape design. Try to match the plants that fit your space well, and that won’t accidentally take over and compete with your other plants. Doing so will help you get a balanced and beautiful yard or garden all year-round with healthy plants.

26 Types of Red Berries Growing on Trees and Shrub

Are you a fan of red berries? Whether you are a gardening enthusiast looking who likes rare flowers or looking for the best to grow in your little piece of green heaven in your backyard or just an ardent red berry lover, being curious about the various types is normal.

So, if you are a complete amateur when it comes to berries, no worries, we have got you covered. We will discuss 26 different types of red berries in detail, along with pictures for your understanding.

There are two broad categories of red berries, one that grows on the tree and the second that grows on the shrubs. The brilliant contrast of the rich red colour against the bright green gives your garden such a gorgeous look that can make your neighbours jealous. When it comes to recognising the different types of red berries, it is usually done by checking and analyzing the kind of leaves the shrub or the tree has, the shape, texture and, colours of the flower, and, obviously, the trunk.

Now that the basic idea of red berries and it is identification clear, let us talk about the different types of red berries-

1. Snake Berries

Having the look and texture of a real strawberry, snake berries are often called Indian strawberries and mock strawberries. However, they are not actual berries. The red and white fruit produced look like a berry and edible.

It is a perennial herb producing a fruit that a fleshy, juicy texture with a sweet taste. Being a perennial herb, it has several medical benefits and can be used in treating skin diseases with its natural healing power.  It is also known to treat issues like body pain, inflammation, heart diseases, etc. One thing that should be kept in mind is that any amateur should not use it for treatment purposes without expert supervision. The berries can be toxic for your body if not used in proper quantity.

2. Red Chokeberry Bush

A tall shrub with multiple stems and adorned with lots of white flowers, these shrubs produce the glossiest and prettiest berries ever. The shrub grows best in moist soil, but once it has established its root and started growing, it can survive moderate dryness.

Make sure you keep it in a place where it receives moderate sunshine without drying out the soil. The fleshy red berries covered in oval leaves give your garden a spectacular look and  are edible (only with lots of sugar).

3. Barberries

You might not already know this, but this is one of the most favourite berries amongst several people. Do you want to know why? Because this berry is widely used to make jams and jellies. Apart from its delicious, sweet taste, this berry is also known for its medicinal properties.

Being a herb in nature, they are known to treat various digestive disorders like heartburn, constipation and, diarrhoea and are also known to reduce blood sugar level, cholesterol and, PCOD.

Coming to its edibility, apart from jam and jellies, you can also consume them with wine, tea, or sauce. They also serve as an excellent substitute for raisin and cranberries.

4. Redcurrants

Here is another shrub berry. These summer berries with pulpy, fleshy texture give you a mild taste and is a combination of a black and white currant. Not too robust but a little tart than white currant. Apart from their delicious taste and magnificent look,  they are ideal for your health. Being rich in antioxidant properties, vitamin C and K, and potassium, it keeps both your skin and heart-healthy and fit.

5. Red Gooseberry

Gooseberries have a unique taste which is a blend of sweet and tart combination, good enough to tease your taste buds. Produced in a gorgeous ruby-like shiny red, these berries are excellent for making pies and jams.

This shrub grows best in well-drained and partial sandy soil with moderate exposure to sunlight. So, if you want something tasty as well as pretty to make your garden look amazing, red gooseberries are undoubtedly a great choice! If you aren’t sure how to obtain this shrub, contact Madera tree care services and they will be more than happy to help you with that.

6. Pin Cherries

Growing on wild bushes and shrubs, they look like black cherries. If you go by the look of their leaves and bark, they look very similar, but one thing that differentiates them is the pin cherry’s flowers and fruit. The beautiful white flowers come in clusters on the branch, and from the flowers, each pin cherry grows out, again in clusters and ripens somewhere between July and August.

7. Bittersweet Nightshade

Before you even begin reading about these red berries, let us warn you that you should be careful about planting this in your garden and  should ensure your kids keep their distance.

Although the gorgeous red cherries look spectacular in your garden, the berries are toxic. The extract from these berries is indeed used for various medical purposes, but raw berries can be poisonous. Apart from that, the pretty berries and the beautiful Pink-purple flowers are all the reasons that you should consider opting for it.

8. Cotoneaster

Cotoneasters are winter berries growing on evergreen shrubs with four broad types: cranberry cotoneaster, bearberry, hedge cotoneaster, and spreading cotoneaster. Caring for a cotoneaster shrub is basic. All that you need is well-drained soil, moderate sunlight, and moderate watering.

They can do fine without regular fertilizers. But again, these red berries only look good on the outside, and you should certainly not consume it because it is highly poisonous.

9. Hobblebush

If you are looking for a pretty and edible berry, then here is another excellent option you have. Hobble bush is also known as moosewood or witch hobble and is again a perennial type of shrub.

With its large oval leaves that give way to beautiful flowers followed by red berries, this is the right choice for your garden as well. The berries turn black as they ripen, and it is said that they have a delightful taste like dates and raisins.

10. Tatarian Honeysuckle Bush

A deciduous shrub, Tatarian honeysuckle bush, grows out with multiple stems with large oval leaves in a blue-green shade. They produce charming red or pink flowers that grow along with the leaves from the axil.

Red berries with a fleshy texture follow the leaves. However, it is recommended not to plant them in your garden because their growth becomes difficult to control, and it can damage the growth of all the other plants you have in your garden.

11. Winterberry

Another deciduous shrub with bright red cherries. The plant grows to a height of 3-15 feet. The leaves are in a dark green shade placed elliptically and about 2-3 inches long. The bright red cherries are again toxic to humans and animals, so make sure that you do not consume them even by mistake.

It can grow in a variety of conditions if it receives enough moisture. They also need partial to full sunlight every day to thrive better and grow well without additional fertilizers.

12. Cornellian Cherry Dogwood

It is a small tree that grows to a height of 2- to 25 feet. These trees thrive best in well-drained soils. They produce bright yellow flowers that grow out in clusters and charmingly adorn the entire tree even before the leaves come out.

The leaves are dark green in the shade with distinct veins and oval. The tree produces clusters of rich red berries that usually ripen towards the end of summer. The best part about these berries is that they are edible and can be used to make jams, jellies, and pies.

13. Peruvian Pepper

As the name suggests, this evergreen tree produces bright red cherries with a peppery taste. Also known by other different names like the American pepper, false pepper, or the pepper tree.

The tree is distinguished by its fern-like leaves that produce small white flowers that become red berry-like fruits that have a peppery taste with lots of seeds. This plant is mostly found in places with a hot arid climate.

The fruits from this tree are generally safe for consumption, but it is recommended that children do not eat them because these fruits might upset their stomachs.

14. American Holly Tree

This broad-leaved evergreen tree is most famous for its striking red cherries and dark green leaves with a leathery texture and pointed tips. The trees grow out in a pyramidal shape and grow very tall, ranging from 6 meters to 15 meters.

Caring for an American holly tree is very easy. All that you need is to keep it in moist soil and protect them from the cold chilly winds. Water them moderately, and you will be good to go. The best part is they do not fall prey to pests that easily.

15. Red Berry Mistletoe

Redberry mistletoe is a type of mistletoe that belongs to the family santacalacea. The plant has several small green leaves and is well known for its strikingly gorgeous red berries. However, it would help if you kept in mind that these berries might look great from the outside but are fatal for your health.

They are extremely poisonous to humans. On the contrary, they are entirely harmless to birds. It is the birds that eat the fruits and help disperse the red berries’ seeds.

16. Hawthorn Tree

The best-known use for this plant and its berries is for medicinal purposes. They help treat various diseases, especially those related to your heart, like blockage and high blood pressure. As we already mentioned its medicinal properties, it is evident that it is also edible and is not harmful. Apart from its health benefits, the light green leaves provide a brilliant contrast to the pretty red cherries that are sure to make your garden look 100 times better and prettier.

17. Buffalo Berry

This is one of the toughest berry plants. Immune to extreme cold weather as well as capable of fighting against drought. These berries are rich in vitamin C and antioxidants. The berries grow on small plants or shrubs that are dioecious, which means that they have both male and female reproductive organs.

The trees produce small white-yellow flowers that give way to bright red berries. In the beginning, that is around late summer, they are a little tart, but as time goes and they ripen, they become sweeter. They can make delicious jellies and are exceptionally tasty when eaten dried, fresh, or cooked in desserts or other dishes.

18. Butcher’s Broom

A small evergreen shrub with dark green leaves produces bright red cherries with a fleshy texture. Butcher’s broom has been used in herbal medicines for ages. Its best known for treating inflammation, poor blood circulation, and hypotension.

The plant, a member of the lily family, has short spiny leaves and red cherries. However, there is one thing that you should keep in mind when it comes to butcher’s broom, although they are used for medicinal purposes, one should not consume them directly. They are not just toxic but can also harm your digestive system.

19. Raspberries

Speaking of red berries and not mentioning raspberries is not possible. Popularly known for the sweet juicy berries with a soft pulpy texture, raspberries are also rich in Vitamin C, E, antioxidants, and several other minerals that are very useful for your body.

Apart from the sweet, delicious taste and the minerals and vitamins, they also serve several health benefits like helping with diabetes, preventing cancer, promoting your eyes’ health, and preventing cancer.

Remember that there are several types of raspberries, including black, purple, and golden, but here we are explicitly talking about red raspberries.

20. Spindles

Scientifically known as Euonymus Europaeus, it is a small shrub known for its red cherries and flowers. It grows best in well-drained soil with moderate sunlight. The bark is grey with simple leaves on opposite sides that have texture.

The gorgeous pink flowers give way to the fruit, which is green in color and then becomes deep pink to red as they gradually ripen. The inside of the fruit has a deep orange-red fleshy texture with multiple seeds in it, and just like many other cherry plants, they too are known for their medicinal properties.

21. Strawberries

Of course! Although we wanted to start the list with less popular are rare kinds of cherries that you probably do not know about how a list of types of red berries can be ever completed without mentioning strawberry.

The popular fruit is grown on perennial herbaceous plants. The fruit is rich in Vitamin C and has a laxative effect. Easy to digest and attractive with its dark reddish color, it is often eaten with yogurt, ice cream, chocolate, and cereals. They are usually harvested in the summer, low in calories, and rich in Vitamins, they are undoubtedly great for your health.

22. Elderberry

Growing on a large deciduous shrub and being a part of the honeysuckle plant family, elderberry produces large clusters of berries that are bright red and have a very fleshy and juicy taste with lots of seed. The leaves are dark green in an oval shape, have a leathery texture to them, and are located opposite each other.

The foliage has a very distinctive and robust odor to itself. They can be grown on various soils, but they grow better in loamy soil rich in nutrients and prefer full exposure to the sun. Although they required soil with a fair amount of moisture to bloom the best, the soil also requires proper drainage to avoid water stagnation.

23. Nanking Cherry

The Nanking cherries are fast growers that start producing fruits within two years of being planted. The trees grow to a height of 15 ft and spread rapidly in width to the extent that needs time to trim. They produce beautiful pink buds that turn white as they bloom into flowers. The flowers give way to the dark red berries with a tart-like taste and are edible.

The fruits usually ripen between July and August. However, they have a concise shelf life that makes them undesirable for commercial use. However, even commercially, they are still used for making sure food items like pies, juice, syrups, and wine.

24. American Bittersweet

No, do not get confused. We know we have already talked about bittersweet nightshade cherries, but these are different. These are the American bittersweet cherries. It is a perennial vine that grows by wrapping itself around trees and shrubs.

Another medicinal plant whose roots and barks are used for medicinal purposes and help with body ailments and issues like fluid retention, arthritis, menstrual disorder, and liver disorder.

The tree produces white flowers in clusters in the shape of stars, followed by capsules ranging from yellow to crimson. The flowers are followed by green fruits, which turn bright red as they ripen.

25. Evans Cherry

The tree primarily grown for its edible fruits, beautiful white flowers followed by sour and bright red berries popularly used to make jams, pies, and jellies. The cherries have a soft pulpy texture that is exceptionally juicy.

The tree needs to be planted in well-drained soil with full sun exposure to bloom best. They are also used best in cooking various delicacies, baking, and preserving other food materials.

26. High Bush Cranberries

High bush cranberries are called so due to their striking resemblance to cranberries, even though they aren’t. However, the two plants are quite different. The high bush cranberry plants produce clusters of white flowers in June alongside 3-lobed green leaves with a glossy texture and turn orange-yellow during the fall.

The fruit ripens approximately around August, with a soft juicy texture, in bright red and a central core with the seeds, a lot like cranberries. They are popularly used in jams, jellies and, juice and taste like an original cranberry, and they are also often used as a substitute for cranberries.

So, these were the 26 types of red berries that we wanted you all to know about. Remember, there are various categories, types, and species of red berries, and more will keep getting added to the list as researchers find out more varieties.

But for now, these 26 types of red berries are all that you need to know to grow your knowledge. Each being from a different variety with different characteristics looks even better with Oak tree falls. Some are used in jams and pies, some are eaten fresh, some are for decorative purposes, and some are for medicinal purposes.

We hope that this article was helpful to you, and if you have any further queries, do not be shy to reach out to us in the comment section below.

12 Evergreen Trees and Shrubs With Red Fruits and Berries

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When winter sets in, your gardens don’t necessarily have to be bare, dreary, and devoid of color and vitality. After the leaves have fallen, trees and shrubs with red berries and fruits make their grand entrance.

The bright red fruit ornaments are very nice in contrast to white snow and go exceptionally well with the Christmas spirit in December. Therefore, they are often cut from branches of trees or shrubs and used for decoration in the house.
Kill two birds with one stone by planting trees and shrubs with long-lasting red berries and evergreen leaves.

They often appear in the fall and remain pleasant all winter long, taking over from the evergreen foliage; decorative fruiting of these plants will add a veritable firework display in the greyness. A festival of colors that will continue throughout the seasons as these trees and bushes know how to metamorphose.

What’s better than trees that keep both the green theme and add some sparks of energetic crimson or vermilion when there’s little else to look at? And to combine the useful with the beautiful, many fruit-bearing trees and shrubs also serve as a source of food for the birds in autumn and winter.

Discover the most beautiful evergreen trees and bushes adorn themselves with magnificent red berries that will transform the desert garden in winter into an oasis rich in colorful accents.

Green Leaves And Red Berries And Fruits In Shrubs And Trees

Green and red are special colors; used in gardening and landscaping, you can achieve harmonic or dramatic effects with shrubs and trees, shall we see why and how?

Why We Use Evergreens with Red Berries at Christmas

When the festive season comes, we see evergreen leaves and red berries on doors and mantle pieces all over the world. But why?

It really has nothing to do with Christianity… It’s an old Pagan tradition from Europe, when people wanted auspices for fertility in the new year!

And what’s better than a plant that never drops its foliage and even gives you red fruits, maybe when all the world is asleep?

And now, let’s talk about art.

Green and Red are a Perfect Combination for Your Garden

Green and red are complementary colors. This means that they balance each other off perfectly well. Green is relaxing, red is exiting.

Green gives structure, red gives depth… Green is the color of Nature, red the color of passion. Green gives you a sense of time being slow, red makes it go faster! 

There are other sets of complementary colors, but they are not as eye pleasing as these two: yellow and purple clash, as do blue and orange;

these give you contrast, while green and red give you harmony. This is especially clear when it snows, and the background becomes neutrally white.

Balance Green and Red in Your Garden with Shrubs and Trees

Careful though, red can easily become “too much”. It is the most dominant color we have, the first we see among all colors. If there is more green than red, you get a balanced effect. 

So, the idea is always to have more of the color of Nature and less of that of passion, unless you want real drama in your garden or on your terrace, that is.

You can do this by mixing other evergreen shrubs and trees with some of the ones you are going to see now, especially those that have massive displays of red fruits and berries…

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Great Evergreen Trees And Shrubs With Red Fruits And Berries

Red berries and fruits with evergreen foliage is what all the shrubs and trees of this selection have in common, but let’s see also how they differ! And they are not just for Christmas…

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English Holly (Ilex aquifolium)

The queen of all evergreen shrubs with red berries is English (or common) holly! And you can train it into a tree too.

The red clusters of fiery pearls ripen just in time for the Christmas season, and you will find them at the tips of the branches mixed in with the iconic leaves of this plant.

The spiny, hard and very glossy green foliage is in itself very decorative. You may need a male plant to get the berries on the female one, but it’s all well worth the effort.

These plants have a pyramidal habit, and there are famous cultivars like ‘Red Beauty’ and ‘Blue Boy’. And be prepared for visiting birds! 

English holly is ideal for specimen and foundation planting, giving you structure and color all year round; alternatively, it will mix well with other plants in informal hedges and windscreens. You can adapt it to formal designs, but it will require much higher maintenance.

• Hardiness: USDA zones 6 to 10.
• Light exposure: full Sun or partial shade.
• Fruit ripening season: late fall and winter.
• Size: 6 to 10 feet tall (1.8 to 3.0 meters) and up to 5 feet in spread (1.5 meters) in most cultivar cases; wild plants can grow to 80 feet tall (25 meters)! 
• Soil requirements: medium rich and well drained loam, clay or chalk based soil with acidic to neutral pH.

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Spotted Laurel (Aucuba japonica)

The name “spotted laurel” is misleading, as it is not related to Laurus, and in fact its leaves are softer, light to dark green with cream yellow spots; oval and often bending, they form a thick and dense shrub with a lovely color pattern and a glossy sheen.

Purple flowers will appear in spring, and they will give way to glossy bright and deep red berries with an oval shape on female individuals.

These will play hide and seek among the foliage, with a lovely and colorful display that can last into early spring!

Spotted laurel is very adaptable; you can grow as foundation planting, but also in hedges, borders and wind screens. And don’t worry if you only have a terrace; a nice container will do perfectly well!

• Hardiness: USDA zones 6 to 10.
• Light exposure: full Sun or partial shade.
• Fruit ripening season: late fall and winter, often persisting into spring.
• Size: 6 to 10 feet tall (1.8 to 3.0 meters) and up to 9 feet in spread (2.7 meters). 
• Soil requirements: organically rich and well drained loam, clay or sand based soil with pH from mildly alkaline to mildly acidic. It is heavy clay tolerant.

3:

Heavenly Bamboo (Nandina domestica)

Heavenly bamboo is an original entry in our selection of evergreen shrubs with red fruits, or glossy bright green berries in our case.

They come in large clusters, like “grapes of fire” after the tiny but plentiful white flowers that come in spring are spent. As the berries turn from green into their ripe color, the foliage changes too!

The elegant pinnate and arching leaves are green in the early months of the year, but as fall approaches, they start turning red and purple.

This is a shrub you want for a continuous and ever changing chromatic spectacle on your balcony or in your garden.

Heavenly bamboo is a very tough plant, low maintenance and adaptable. Grow it in borders and hedges, for foundation planting or even under trees and in woodland areas. It will also be perfect in a Japanese or oriental garden. Be careful though, all the plant is toxic.

• Hardiness: USDA zones 6 to 9. 
• Light exposure: full Sun or partial shade.
• Fruit ripening season: fall and winter.
• Size: 4 to 8 feet tall (1.2 to 2.4 meters) and up to 4 feet in spread (2.4 meters). 
• Soil requirements: medium fertile and well drained loam, clay, chalk or sand based soil with pH from mildly alkaline to mildly acidic. It is drought tolerant.

4:

Chilean Guava (Ugni molinae)

With Chilean guava you get three for the price of one: evergreen foliage, beautiful flowers and berries! The leaves are glossy, elliptical and dark green.

In spring clusters of super fragrant, bell shaped pink and white flowers appear hanging from the branches. They can keep blooming into summer as well.

They turn then into large dark red berries, ½ inch in size (1 cm) which you can eat, or turn into jams. The foliage too can get blushes of red, adding to the color display. 

Ideal for warm gardens, Chilean guava will grace hedges, borders and containers in Mediterranean, city and courtyard gardens and terraces alike, as long as informal in inspiration.

• Hardiness: USDA zones 9 to 10.
• Light exposure: full Sun or partial shade.
• Fruit ripening season: fall.
• Size: 3 to 6 feet tall and in spread (90 cm to 1.8 meters).
• Soil requirements: medium fertile and well drained loam, clay, chalk or sand based soil with ph from mildly alkaline to mildly acidic. It is drought tolerant.

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Bearberry Cotoneaster (Cotoneaster dammeri)

Bearberry cotoneaster is an evergreen shrub that gives you a “natural” Italian flag, with green foliage, white flowers and red berries all at the same time!

The effect is lovely and light, with a very fine texture and pattern. The leaves are small, mid green and oval, the blooms are small too, with five round white petals, and purple anthers;

and the berries coriaceous and bright red. Imagine them all together on a dense shrub with trailing branches and you get the picture!

You can grow bearberry cotoneaster on slopes, as edging or even as ground cover, thanks to its trailing habit, which makes it ideal for rock gardens as well.

• Hardiness: USDA zones 5 to 8.
• Light exposure: full Sun or partial shade.
• Fruit ripening season: fall, and they stay on in winter.
• Size: up to 1 foot tall (30 cm) and 4 to 6 feet in spread (1.2 to 1.8 meters). 
• Soil requirements: well drained loam, clay, chalk or sand based soil with pH from mildly alkaline to mildly acidic. It is drought tolerant.

6: ‘Repens Aurea’ English Yew (Taxus baccata ‘Repens Aurea’)

‘Repens Aurea’ is a conifer shrub of the yew genus with some special features for your  garden. The dense and evergreen foliage is bright green with golden flushes, and it comes on the arching and pendulous branching of this spreading bush.

It will not bloom, but it will produce berry like cones that of a lovely coral red shade. You rarely get a big display, but they still look lovely when they come..

The overall effect is bright and full of light, and maybe this is why the Royal Horticultural Society has rewarded it with the Award of Garden Merit.

‘Repens Aurea’ is a cultivar you will enjoy as ground cover, as specimen plant in rock gardens, courtyard and city gardens, maybe next to steps, or arching over low walls. It is well suited to shady gardens.

• Hardiness: USDA zones 6 to 8.
• Light exposure: full Sun, partial shade and full shade.
• Fruit ripening season: summer and fall.
• Size: 2 to 4 feet tall (60 to 120 cm) and 6 to 15 feet in spread (1.8 to 4.5 meters).
• Soil requirements: well drained loam, clay, chalk or sand based soil with pH from mildly alkaline to mildly acidic.

7:

Korean Barberry (Berberis koreana)

Korean barberry is evergreen only in warmer climates, in colder ones it may drop some or all of the leaves, but still… How can you resist the clusters of bright red and egg shaped berries that hang from the branches in the late months?

And they follow equally beautiful drooping flowers of the brightest yellow! The leaves are bright green most of the year, but then they take on russet to maroon and purple tones in fall and winter.

While it may shed them in severe climates, it is very cold hardy, so don’t worry if it does; they will come back in spring. The branches till look lovely though, reddish in color and with spikes.

Korean berry has a wild, woodland look; use it for informal, cottage and traditional garden as part of your borders, hedges or wind screens, even as foundation planting and in shady, naturalized and woodland areas.

• Hardiness: USDA zones 3 to 7.
• Light exposure: full Sun or partial shade.
• Fruit ripening season: fall and winter.
• Size: 4 to 6 feet tall and in spread (1.2 to 1.8 meters). 
• Soil requirements: well drained loam, clay, chalk or sand based soil with pH from mildly alkaline to mildly acidic. It is drought tolerant.

8: Strawberry Tree (Arbustus unedo)

Strawberry tree is different from the evergreen shrubs and trees we have seen so far; it has large round fruits that ripen over a whole year, going from green to yellow to bright red when they are finally mature.

This means that they will share the branches with the clusters of nodding, urn shaped, cream and very fragrant flowers that come in fall and winter.

The leaves are mid green and broad, elliptical and serrated, not too dense and pointing up, while the “strawberries” hang underneath.

Red, cream, green and yellow can all be on this bush at the same time, and you can even turn it into a small tree.

Strawberry tree is perfect for Mediterranean and coastal garden, but it won’t loom out of place in borders, hedges and as foundation or specimen planting in other informal designs. And don’t forget that the fruits are edible!

• Hardiness: USDA zones 7 to 9.
• Light exposure: full Sun or partial shade.
• Fruit ripening season: it takes a year, usually they will be ripe in fall and winter.
• Size: 6 to 15 feet tall and in spread (1. 8 to 4.5 meters). 
• Soil requirements: medium fertile and well drained loam, clay or sand based soil with acidic to neutral pH. It is drought tolerant.

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‘Red Cushion’ Scarlet Firethorn (Pyracantha coccinea ‘Red Cushion’)

The name of ‘Red Cushion’ scarlet firethorn says it all about this evergreen shrub. Noted for its spiked branches and regular, tidy habit, it fills with a sea of scarlet red berries in clusters, each with a flattened round shape, looking like miniature apples.

But it is also a massive bloomer, with tiny white flowers that come in spring and continue into the early months of summer.

The foliage is mid green, glossy and finely textured thanks to the small and oval leaves, not too dense, but lush enough to set off blossoms and fruits well.

‘Red Cushion’ scarlet firethorn has a very temperate woodland personality; grow it in informal gardens, as a wall side shrub, in hedges or even as foundation planting.

• Hardiness: USDA zones 6 to 9.
• Light exposure: full Sun or partial shade.
• Fruit ripening season: fall and winter.
• Size: 3 to 4 feet tall (90 to 120 cm) and 4 to 5 feet in spread (120 to 150 cm).
• Soil requirements: medium fertile and well drained loam, clay, chalk or sand based soil with pH from mildly alkaline to mildly acidic. It is drought and heavy clay tolerant.

10:

Evergreen Dogwood (Cornus capitata)

Evergreen dogwood is the big outsider in our selection of evergreen trees and shrubs with red berries and fruits…

It is far too exotic to fit the Christmas theme, but nevertheless a rare beauty! The green foliage is elliptical, mid green and arched, like that of peach trees, not too dense but lush.

The blooms are dour round, cream white and very showy bracts that look like petals on the branches from early to mid summer.

Them you will see large, bright red berries hanging on pendulous red stems, that look like oversized berries… Don’t just “look” at them… pick them too, as they are quite a treat for you and for birds if they get there first!

Evergreen dogwood is a tropical looking shrub or tree that can’t be missed in any garden, especially in tropical, Mediterranean or coastal gardens, where it really gives its best!

• Hardiness: USDA zones 8 to 9.
• Light exposure: full Sun or partial shade.
• Fruit ripening season: fall.
• Size: 20 to 40 feet tall and in spread (6.0 to 12 meters).
• Soil requirements: organically rich and fertile, well drained loam, clay or sand based soil with pH from mildly acidic to neutral.

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Japanese Skimmia (Skimmia japonica)

Japanese skimmia is the ideal soft looking evergreen shrub with red berries for shady gardens. It has very dense, broad, oval mid green leaves with a nice aroma; they form mounds of lush foliage all year round, with a spreading habit.

By mid spring you will see large and thick clusters of cream and pink star shaped blooms, that form interesting and very fragrant plumes above the greenery.

Then, on female plants, the flowers give way to bright and glossy candy red berries in groups, and they will stay on till winter.

Plant male and male individuals nearby for best effect, especially on banks and slopes, in borders and hedges, woodland areas and traditional looking gardens, and you will not regret it!

• Hardiness: USDA zones 6 to 8.
• Light exposure: partial shade or full shade.
• Fruit ripening season: fall and winter.
• Size: 3 to 4 feet tall (90 to 120 cm) and 4 to 5 feet in spread (120 to 150 cm).
• Soil requirements: moderately fertile and humus rich, constantly humid but well drained loam or chalk based soil with pH from mildly alkaline to mildly acidic.

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Peruvian Peppertree (Schinus molle)

Peruvian peppertree is a very elegant evergreen tree with edible berries. The branches have a weeping habit, and they are covered in light green, finely pinnate leaves that look like fronds and wave beautifully in the wind.

The texture is very sophisticated, and the round shape of the crown makes this small tree even more valuable for its architectural qualities. Clusters of yellow and green flowers will appear in July and August.

The green berries that follow will be ready for the picking by December, when they turn red. And yes, the name is not random! They taste of black pepper and they are in fact a great substitute for this spice!

Peruvian pepper is a very attractive plant for many types of gardens, as specimen or foundation planting; the foliage is so delicate looking and easily trimmed that it could even fit formal gardens, pool sides, and exotic gardens alike.

• Hardiness: USDA zones 8 to 12.
• Light exposure: full Sun or even partial shade in hot countries.
• Fruit ripening season:  October to December; they will stay on into winter if you do not pick them.
• Size: maximum 26 feet tall (8.0 meters) and 20 feet in spread (6.0 meters) but they are often smaller than that.
• Soil requirements: medium or even poor but well drained loam, clay or sand based soil with pH from mildly alkaline to mildly acidic. It is drought tolerant.

Evergreen Shrubs And Trees With Red Berries – An Eye-Catching Color Festival In The Winter Garden

Ok, most of our plants will look great during the festive season too, and they will have bright red berries and fruits just when gardens are barren and fire places need decorations, but…

With flowers and lovely leaves at other times of the year, cold or exotic personalities, round, spreading or pyramidal habits, for sure, they can grace your garden 12 months a year, and not just when it’s cold!

Adriano Bulla

After many years as an academic in London, Adriano Bulla became a writer, publishing books like A History of Gardening, Organic Gardening and Elements of Garden Design; he then decided to become a gardener, following his childhood dream, and has been following his dream writing and gardening professionally in Southern Europe, where he has specialized in new and innovative organic gardening fields and techniques, like permaculture, regenerative agriculture, food forests and hydroponics.

Bushes And Trees With Red Berries

Are you looking to add some color to your garden but don’t want a big, splashy show? It’s perfectly fine to want a ‘less is more approach rather than establishing a cacophony of color in your landscape. Sometimes, all you want is just a little something. 

Thankfully, I’ve got just the thing AND with just the right amount of color and interest in all four seasons. Que ‘trees with red berries add a little vibrancy to your garden, even when everything else goes dormant, as well as provide vital food for wildlife. It’s a win-win! 

Table Of Contents

1. Trees with Red Berries
   • Nellie Stevens Holly
   • Robin Red Holly Tree 
   • Crusader Hawthorn
   • Strawberry Tree
   • Lapins Cherry Tree
   • Everbearing Mulberry Tree
   • Canada Red Chokecherry 
   • Autumn Brilliance Serviceberry Tree 
2. Coniferous Tree with Red Berries 
   • Hicks Yew Tree 
3. Shrubs and Bushes With Red Berries 
   • Pink Lemonade Blueberry Bush 
   • Goji Berry 
   • Stevens Cranberry Bush 
   • Winter Red Winterberry Holly 
   • Coral Beauty Cotoneaster 
4. FAQ’s Trees with Red Berries 

Trees with Red Berries

Berry-producing trees typically provide alluring interest in fall and winter. However, some enjoy warmer weather and are quite happy as a summer garden accent. Below, you’ll see lots of different options that produce red berries. All of which have beautiful, spring flowers and interesting foliage characteristics. 

These examples also come in different sizes and growing habits. So, there’s one (or two) to fit every garden style. 

When you see one that speaks to you, be sure to look for things like hardiness zone, maturity size, care requirements, and how it would fit into your current landscape.

The most important thing to consider is whether you plan to grow your red fruiting tree or shrub as an ornamental or if it’s something you’d want to harvest crops from. The list below has both. 

Keep in mind that the berries in some of the examples are toxic and not intended for consumption.

Nellie Stevens Holly

(Ilex X ‘Nellie R. Stevens’)

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We’ll start with this highly versatile, evergreen shrub that grows 24-36” per year, potentially reaching 25’, in maturity, in zones 6-9. Due to its vigorous growth, this holly cultivar can be planted as a garden feature or ‘en masse as a privacy hedge. 

A cross between English and Chinese hollies, the Nellie Stevens has spiny, dark green leaves that don’t dull in winter. Rather, they maintain a glossy appearance that’s highlighted by those quintessential red holly berries.

The versatility of these ornate shrubs begins with the fact that they actually enjoy warm weather while still being able to tolerate frost conditions. 

In spring, tiny white flowers sprout, in contrast to the surrounding green foliage.

The small, red berries that grow on the Nellie R. Stevens holly are very appealing and often used as holiday decorations. 

But caution is recommended, especially around small children.  As, they are poisonous to humans and most animals, including household pets. Ingesting these berries may result in severe intestinal issues. 

Robin Red Holly Tree 

(Ilex hybrid ‘Conin’)

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The colorful Robin Red Holly with its spiny, evergreen foliage can be seen adorning gardens in the same hardiness zones as the Nellie Stevens. The difference, of course, is in the details. 

While evergreen, new leaves continue to sprout in spring, in a rich maroon hue. Compounding its lush appearance, year after year. 

The flowers from which autumn berries form are so small that they’re often masked by the dense foliage. Making the berries seem to appear out of nowhere.   

The Red Holly’s tidy, pyramidal shape can reach a mature size of 18’ x 15’ and thrives in both full and partial sun, moist conditions, and nutrient-rich, acidic soil. 

Like the Nellie Stevens, this hybrid can also be grown as a privacy hedge with seasonal interest.

In autumn, large clusters of attractive, red berries form. But these should not be ingested. Holly berries contain a toxic compound called ilicin and should be considered dangerous around small children. Ingestion by children and animals may result in severe illness.

Crusader Hawthorn

(Crataegus crusgalli ‘Crusader’)

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Its ominous name notwithstanding, this Hawthorn cultivar is cute as a button. Growing to a compact, yet broadly crowned size of 15’ tall by 15’ wide, in zones 4-8.

This is a fantastic choice if you’re looking to improve your curb appeal. Horizontal branches, covered in dark green, serrated leaves, extend out from a stout trunk. From which large, five-petalled, white blooms hang in clusters.

Coarse, gray, and brown bark supports this attractive composition as it moves into autumn, donning shades of scarlet, plum, and bronze.

A cultivar of cockspur hawthorn, this quaint yet tough tree can tolerate drought and occasional flooding. But, will not perform well in shade. Six, or more, hours of full sun are needed for healthy foliage growth and abundant blooms. 

In late summer, showy pomes begin to emerge from spent flowers in similar clusters that remain a vivid, spotted red right through winter. 

Fruits are technically edible, meaning they’re not necessarily poisonous to humans or pets. However, the Crusader Hawthorn is typically grown as ornamental.  

Strawberry Tree

(Muntingia calabura)

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This prolific producer has been grown all over the world and has come to be known as the Jamaica Cherry, Panama Cherry, and Singapore Cherry. It is widely known as the Strawberry tree (despite being a cherry) for its delicate blooms that closely resemble those found on strawberry plants. 

With the ability to be grown as a single or multi-trunked tree, this is a rapid grower with slender proportions. Reaching 25’-40’ in height and width, with horizontal-spreading branches, in zones 8-11. These can also be grown in pots, in zones 4-7. Then, wintered over indoors. 

The Strawberry tree performs best in the full morning sun with afternoon shade. Having a reputation for growing in the poorest of soils, this fruit bearer is drought-resistant and will often produce fruit in the first year, after planting.

The bountiful cherries from this tree can be either red or yellow and have a thin skin and pulpy centers that taste similar to figs. The leaves of the Strawberry tree can also be dried and steeped for tea. 

Lapins Cherry Tree

(Prunus avium ‘Lapins’)

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The uncommon Lapins Cherry is one of but a few, in the Cherry tree menagerie, that is self-pollinating. But, not before putting on a spectacular show of softly billowing, pale pink blossoms, suspended along out-stretched, sturdy branches.  These, along with dense, green foliage, have evolved to sustain and carry an abundant yield, in zones 5-9. In winter, deciduous leaves fall, revealing an unyielding and appealing architectural form in the open landscape.

Maturing to an overall size of 20’x15’, this blooming beauty is self-fertile and an effective pollinator for other cherry tree varieties. 

In full sun and well-draining soil, this cherry cultivar will prove to be adaptable to most soil types, low-maintenance, and hardy down to -10F.

In optimal conditions, your Lapins Cherry could produce an astounding 20 gallons of sweet, firm fruit with dark red flesh that isn’t prone to splitting.  

Known as a late-season cherry, this cultivar ripens a full two weeks after common Bing cherries and can be used as a substitute in recipes that call for them.

Everbearing Mulberry Tree

(Morus nigra)

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This Mulberry cultivar is attractive, deciduous, and can be grown as a single or multi-trunked specimen. In spring, tiny white flowers form in catkin clusters. With bright green, lobed leaves lining stems and branches.

Vigorously growing and low-maintenance, these are adaptable to most soil types in zones 3 and 4. Growing to a mature size of 15’ by 10’, these trees are long-lived and disease resistant.

Everbearing mulberries require no pollinator assistance to produce fruit. But do need full sun, loamy soil, and a fruit tree fertilizer once a year.  A dwarf variety is also widely available and makes a charming addition to decks, patios, and front porches.  

Once flowers have faded, succulent mulberries grow in abundance, from June to August. Ripening at different rates, the growing and harvesting time is extended. Unlike other fruiting trees that are ready to harvest all at once. 

Mulberries are an excellent source of iron and vitamin C. Studies have shown plant compounds to be linked to lower cholesterol, blood sugar, and cancer risk.

Canada Red Chokecherry 

(Prunus virginiana ‘Canada Red’)

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The Canadian Chokecherry will introduce vibrant, season-long color to any outdoor space, especially monotone landscapes. Once established, these can form a stunning and productive privacy barrier, in zones 3-8.

Lush green foliage, on upward-mobile branches, reveals snow-white blossoms in spring, which develop into juicy, edible fruit. Leaves then herald the coming of autumn as they fade to the color of fine, burgundy wine.  

This northern beauty can grow to 20′ x 10’. But, can be kept small for containers and small garden spaces.

Wind resistant, and drought-tolerant, the Chokecherry can withstand temperatures down to -30 degrees. Ideal for gardens in regions with extremely harsh winters.

With proper fertilization and sufficient exposure to sunlight, this tree will produce a bumper crop of tangy fruit.  The sour cherries of Canada Red trees have firm skin that pops with chewy goodness and tart juice.

This unique flavor profile makes Canadian chokecherries an easy go-to as a recipe substitute for red wine. As well as in jams, juices, and desserts.

Autumn Brilliance Serviceberry Tree 

(Amelanchier × grandiflora ‘Autumn Brilliance’)

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This hybrid fall favorite is a deciduous ornamental that can potentially reach 25’ x 25’. But, can also be kept at a more accessible size with seasonal pruning.

At maturity, this Grandiflora serviceberry celebrates the season by releasing hundreds of white blooms, in early spring. Then, finishes the year out with the enchanting architectural form.

Elegant branches reach out and across in geometric patterns from a sturdy trunk. All of which display a smooth, silver-toned bark that beautifully compliments its winter surroundings.

Supported by tear-shaped, blue-green, summer foliage, spent blossoms become clusters of small, pink fruit that ripen to dark purple, similar to blueberries or saskatoons. A popular snack for local wildlife. But, even better for you when used in jams, jellies, and pies.

The Autumn Brilliance Serviceberry gains its name from the stunning colors reflected in its foliage throughout the growing season.

In spring, new leaves emerge with bronze and plum undertones. Maturing to a bright blue-green before fading to fiery shades of copper and crimson.

Coniferous Tree with Red Berries 

We’ve seen some lovely deciduous trees, that drop their leaves in fall, and evergreens, like the Nellie Stevens and Robin Red hollies. All of which flower before fruiting.

The term “conifer” is often used interchangeably with “evergreen”. By definition, these are actually two distinct categories of trees, with a bit of overlap. 

All conifers are evergreens but not all evergreens are conifers. Why? Conifers produce seeds through the development of cones. All other evergreens produce seeds through flowers.

Let’s take a peek at the one unique conifer that produces bright red berries without actually flowering. 

Hicks Yew Tree 

(Taxus x media ‘Hicksii’)

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This one-of-a-kind conifer stands a significant 12’ high and 4’ wide, at maturity, in zones 4-7. As each new branch matures, beautifully contrasting shades of green develop, all full of soft, flat needles.

Adding to its already impressive resume’, the Hick’s Yew has a wide variety of uses. Its tall and narrow growing habit, coupled with how quickly it grows, creates the ideal planting choice for low hedges, foundation plantings (as an alternative to boxwood), or a tall privacy barrier.

The Yew will thrive no matter which side of your home you plant it on, growing in both full sun and partial shade. Its dependably cold-hardy and rarely experiences pest and disease issues.

Yews grow in both male and female forms. The males’ flower and release pollen which the females capture to produce seeds. It’s beneficial to plant both if red “berries” are desired.

In autumn, female yews produce bright red arils that look like berries. Fleshy, cup-shaped seed coverings that are open on the bottom, revealing the seed. 

Shrubs and Bushes With Red Berries 

Berry-producing shrubs and bushes are great alternatives to trees for small garden spaces. Or if you’re simply looking for something with a lower profile. 

While trees offer impeccable architecture and color, shrubs don’t necessarily require as much pruning and maintenance to keep them in the desired shape and size. Especially for a low-growing hedge.

However, the following examples still offer edible or ornamental red berries and eye-catching foliage variations.  Remember to consider hardiness zone and maturity size, when you see one you like, and most importantly, whether each shrub’s berries are edible or toxic.

Pink Lemonade Blueberry Bush 

(Vaccinium ‘Pink Lemonade’)

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On traditional blueberry cultivars, fruit emerges pink, then ripens to dark indigo, to indicate ripeness. On the cutest blueberry bush you’ve ever seen, the berries turn pink when they’re ready to be harvested. But, not before putting on a showy display of pretty, pink and white flowers against bright green leaves, in spring. After harvesting, the show continues with foliage developing rich bronze and copper hues before going dormant for the winter. Contributing to dazzling, seasonal color and interest that’s actually nutritious!

This unique blueberry variety can grow to 4’ high. Allowing you to grow them ‘en masse, as a snackable privacy hedge, or even smaller in individual pots. These will thrive in full to partial sun and well-draining acidic soil, in zones 4-8.

Pink Lemonade Blueberries are firm and juicy with a subtle kiwi flavor. While other blueberry types ripen all at once, this variety has one of the longest harvest times. Peaking in late summer, then continuing to produce berries all the way through October. 

Goji Berry 

(Lycium barbarum)

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The Goji Berry plant is by far one of the easiest on this list to grow. Each shrub will gradually reach 10’ tall, at maturity. An abundantly-fruiting privacy hedge can be achieved by planting these 24” apart. Yet, since Goji shrubs are self-pollinating, a single plant grown in pots, or as a landscape feature, will still produce fruit. 

In zones 5-9, these low-maintenance plants perform best in full sun and well-draining soil. They are hardy down to -18°F but also remain perfectly happy in the dry or humid conditions of warmer climates.

Bright purple, funnel-shaped flowers bloom in spring. These, then develop into long, orange berries that have been used for centuries as a superfood. Packed with antioxidants, amino acids, and vitamins C, B, and E.

Caution is recommended, however. Consuming these berries has been known to result in severe allergic reactions. Those with autoimmune conditions should also refrain from eating Goji berries, as the Lectins they contain can disrupt the immune system even further. 

Stevens Cranberry Bush 

(Vaccinium Macrocarpon)

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Cranberries are an icon of fall holiday meals. The Stevens Cranberry, in particular, is a favorite among chefs and home cooks, alike, for its sweeter flavor. 

The Stevens has been cultivated to withstand a broad range of climate conditions. Everything from the severe winters of zone 3 to the warm and humid conditions of zone 9.

Traditional cranberries are typically farmed in bogs. But the Stevens cultivar thrives in nutrient-rich, acidic soil and full to partial sun. 

This berry plant is also one that contributes to changing, year-round garden interest. Starting with fragrant, pink blossoms and dark-green foliage in spring. Followed by bright red cranberries that absolutely pop against the surrounding leaves. 

Steven Cranberry shrubs can grow to a compact, mature size of 2’ x 3’. Comfortably fitting in borders and beds or pots and containers. These can also be pruned lower to serve as a fruit-bearing ground cover. 

No matter where you grow them, come mid-autumn, you’ll have a bounty of cranberries from your own garden for your favorite recipes. 

Winter Red Winterberry Holly 

(Ilex verticillata ‘Winter Red’)

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The Red Winterberry Holly is a highly ornamental, non-edible, fruiting shrub. Producing long clusters of glossy, red berries that extend out through dark green, deciduous leaves. 

This unusual Holly not only has a different appearance than others of its kind, but it also has an extremely high tolerance for opposing climates. Freezing temperatures and thick layers of ice and snow, as well as warm, balmy conditions. 

This convenient adaptability also includes most soil types, but this holly does require at least 6 hours of sunlight per day. Its versatility as a feature plant, hedge or privacy wall is due to its mature height of 8’ x 8’.

Similar to a rose, new foliage emerges, in spring, a dusty burgundy hue. Highlighting these are tiny, white flowers. The Red Winterberry is not self-pollinating and should, therefore, be planted with the Apollo winterberry, the male version of this cultivar. 

Once pollinated, the Red Winterberry will develop swathes of bright color that will remain so through winter. Even after the foliage has fallen. 

Coral Beauty Cotoneaster 

(Cotoneaster dammeri ‘Coral Beauty’)

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Finally, we arrive at this prolific fruiter. A non-edible ornamental, this special cotoneaster presents a different appearance and growth habit, compared to other cotoneaster cultivars.

The growing season starts with a profusion of white flowers and small, polished, green leaves with gray undersides. As summer proceeds, flowers turn to coral red berries which persist through winter. Adding brilliant color to a dormant landscape. As Autumn approaches, foliage slowly fades to shades of plum and deep purple.

The Cotoneaster is one of the most ideal shrubs to grow either as a garden border, for foundation planting, or as ground cover, reaching a mere 2 ft tall. With a rapidly growing, 6 ft spread, per plant, it’s also one of the most economical.

The attractive qualities continue with its high adaptability to growing mediums. Cliff sides and rocky areas are no match for this shrub, in zones 5-10. Rock gardens and stone walls? No problem. 

All this, plus its low-maintenance, pest, and disease resistant and even provides erosion control with its long, outward-reaching root system. 

FAQ’s Trees with Red Berries 

I often receive questions about different trees with red berries. Like, when they bloom and if there’s a way to tell if the berries are edible or not. Here, I’ll share some of those answers with you. 

Trees with Red Berries in Summer

Popular trees that have red berries ready for summer are the Lapins Cherry, the Everbearing Mulberry and Autumn Brilliance Serviceberry.

Identifying Toxic Berries

Fifty percent of all trees and shrubs that produce red berries are poisonous to people and pets. The most obvious indicators of toxicity are a strong, bitter taste (ex. Coral Beauty Cotoneaster) and spikey, sharp or downy leaves (ex. Holly plants).  

names and photos of plants with sour and bitter, small and large

An original shrub with red berries can decorate any garden plot. This is a real benefit and original natural beauty for the garden. A huge selection of cultivated plants with bitter and sour, large and small berries will fit into any design in an original way and become a bright accent spot.

The most famous shrub with red bitter berries is viburnum, which has exquisite external beauty and a lot of useful and medicinal properties. Another shrub with red sour berries is also widely distributed in household plots. This is a red currant. The third culture is not quite a shrub type, but it can be formed in a similar way. It’s about rowan.

Prickly shrub with red berries – euonymus, dogwood, gooseberry, etc. You can find out all the names of such cultures and see them in the photo further on this page. Their combination will help to get the most out of the backyard and at the same time give the territory an unusual and aesthetically attractive appearance. But be careful – some shrubs with red berries are potentially dangerous to human life and health. In no case should you plant wolfberries in your garden.

Red-fruited cotoneaster garden shrubs

Common cotoneaster This red-fruited garden shrub is not particularly popular, although it tolerates winters and heat very well. Tall stems are pubescent, but over time, the coating disappears. The leaves are broad and rounded. The flowers are white with a pink tint, collected in inflorescences. Berries are bright red.

Cotoneaster is a horizontal or creeping evergreen shrub with a vigorous crown. The foliage is oval, green in color, and by autumn it becomes orange-red. The berries are bright pink and can hang all winter. This species is demanding on the quality of the soil.

Dummer’s cotoneaster. This shrub with red berries grows wild mainly in mountainous areas. The stems also creep and because of this are prone to self-rooting. The height does not exceed 30 cm, but the width is very voluminous.

Foliage is small, round, turning purple in autumn. Inflorescences of a reddish tone. The fruits are pink, also remain on the branches for a long time and have a beautiful appearance.

Has a hybrid variety of Coral Beauty that is slightly taller than the original plant and has increased winter hardiness.

Cotoneaster multiflorum grows over 2 meters. The stems are slightly pubescent, but become bare with age. The young foliage of a shrub with red berries has a grayish color, turns green by summer, and turns red by autumn. The flowers are relatively large, form large inflorescences. The fruits are bright red.

Generally frost-tolerant but not as hardy as Brilliant. Demanding on the nutritional value of the soil.

Cotoneaster Alaunsky – this shrub with red berries is listed in the Red Book. Widespread in mountains or river valleys. It grows up to 2 meters, has small pink flowers, and its fruits are red at first, and then change color to black.

Hawthorn – healing and aesthetic effect

Hawthorn – a large shrub with red berries or a small tree up to 5 m high (sometimes 10-12 m high) Young branches are purple-brown, shiny, covered with sparse, thick, straight spines up to 4 cm long. Its healing and aesthetic effect makes the plant widespread in horticultural culture.

Leaves are alternate, obovate or broadly rhombic with a wedge-shaped base, pointed, shallowly three-seven-lobed serrate, shortly pubescent on both sides, 2-6 cm long, located on short petioles. The color is dark green in summer, orange-red in autumn.

Flowers with five petals, white or slightly pink, connected in dense corymbose inflorescences 4-5 cm in diameter. They have a slight specific smell.

Fruits of a shrub with red berries – berries of spherical or slightly oblong shape with a remaining calyx, diameter 8-10 mm., with 3-4 stones containing 1 seed. The pulp is mealy. The color, depending on the species, is blood-red, brownish, orange, pink, yellow or black. The taste is sweet and sour.

Common barberry – characteristics and interesting varieties

This type of barberry grows mainly in Central and Southern Europe, and these fluffy bushes can also be seen in the North Caucasus. The height of the plant, as a rule, does not exceed 1.5 m. The flowers of the shrub with red yagshods are yellow and white, begin to bloom in the last decade of May, in some areas in early June. The duration of flowering is average – 13-20 days. Ideal for backyard or vegetable garden. The shrub tolerates a haircut well. Not picky about the choice of location: it can grow both in partial shade and in illuminated areas. Among other things, the common barberry can easily endure even severe frosts. This variety of barberry is suitable for eating. This is a small characteristic of the culture, then we will consider interesting varieties.

Common barberry has not so many varieties. The most popular of them are the following:

1. Barberry Juliana Barberry “Juliana” (“Jilianae”) – the bush grows up to 3 meters. The leaves become bright red in autumn;
2. Barberry “Aureomarginata” (“Aureomarginata”) – a bush up to 1.5 m high. The leaves are rich green in color with a golden border. It is desirable that this variety grows in a lighted area. Otherwise, the decorative coloring disappears;
3. Thunberg’s barberry is no less decorative.

It grows wild on the slopes of China and Japan. The plant reaches a height of 1.5 m. In spring and summer, barberry leaves have a yellowish or bright red tint, and with the approach of autumn – brown. Thunberg barberry flowers are usually yellow with a red border around the edges. Compared with the common barberry, this variety does not bloom for long – only 8-12 days. The plant tolerates both cold and drought well, it is not demanding on the soil. The fruits have a bitter taste and therefore are not used in food.

A well-known shrub with red berries – wild rose

Rosehip (lat. Rósa) is a genus of wild plants of the Rosaceae family. It has many cultural forms bred under the name Rosa. This is a well-known thorny shrub with red berries, which grows in abundance in gardens and park areas, in forests and in summer cottages.

• Deciduous shrub, usually 1-5 meters high. Sometimes there are low tree-like forms.
• Shoots covered with thorns.
• Leaves pinnate, with paired stipules (rarely simple and without stipules), containing 5-7 leaflets.
• Flowers usually pale pink, 4-6 cm in diameter. There are forms with flowers that show signs of doubleness.

False fruit (hypanthium), oval or ovoid-spherical, red, orange, purplish-red when ripe, with numerous nuts inside. The color of hypanthium is due to the high content of carotenes. The fruits ripen in October.

Since ancient times, rose hips have been used in folk medicine for gum bleeding. A decoction was also prepared from the wild rose to restore strength. Healing tinctures were prepared from the leafy and root parts of the wild rose. Rosehip syrup with honey was drunk for inflammatory diseases and ulcers in the oral cavity.

Common raspberry and well-known

Common raspberry is a thorny shrub with red berries, characterized by branching. It has a perennial rhizome and is characterized by erect shoots that can reach two meters in height. This is a well-known culture for the garden and vegetable garden.

In the first year, the shoots are fluffy and only their lower part is covered with small and thin brown thorns. In the second year, they become strong and begin to bear fruit, after which they dry up, and new shoots grow from the rhizome and the two-year life cycle begins anew.

The plant itself not only brings delicious fruits, but also has an attractive appearance, so the photo of common raspberry is popular. On the relatively long petioles of the shrub, there are pinnate, compound and alternate leaves, having an average of five to seven leaflets, the upper of which are trifoliate and have stipules. The white flowers of the common raspberry are small and have five petals.

The red, ruby ​​fruits of the culture are a combined drupe, in crops bred by breeders, the berry may have a yellow color. The seeds are round and very small, but hard.

The crop blooms in June-July, and the fruits begin to ripen around July-August. Common raspberry bears fruit over the years is unstable. The yield is affected by the weather: cold and rainy weather prevents the necessary pollination by insects. Reproduction of common raspberries occurs vegetatively or by seeds.

Common cranberry – creeping shrub

Common cranberry (Vaccinium oxycoccos) is another creeping shrub with red bitter berries that you can grow in your garden.

• Taxon: Heather family (Ericaceae)
• Other names: swamp cranberry, four-leafed cranberry, vaccinium, bearberry, marsh grape
• In English: Сraneberry, Bearberries

The Latin word oxycoccos comes from the Greek words – oxys – sharp, sour and coccus – spherical, which means “sour ball”, “sour berry”, according to the taste of fruits. The old specific name comes from the Latin palustris – marsh.

The first European settlers called the cranberry “Craneberry” (literally “crane berry”), because the open flowers on the stems reminded them of the neck and head of a crane. In 17th century New England, cranberries were sometimes called “Bearberries” because people often saw bears eating them.

Common cranberry is an evergreen shrub with red berries and creeping, thin shoots up to 80 cm long. The stems are flexible, lignified, dark brown, with ascending flower-bearing twigs and short filiform fluffy annual twigs. The leaves are alternate, leathery, shiny, dark green, glaucous below from a wax coating and in places with small glandular hairs. Leaves 5-16 mm long, 2-6 mm wide, on short petioles, oblong-ovate, sharp at the apex with entire wrapped edges. The flowers of cranberries are pink-red, drooping, arranged one by one or more often collected in 2-4, less often 6 in umbellate inflorescences on last year’s branches. Pedicels long, calyx with four sepals, corolla deeply four-parted, 5-7 mm long, 1.5-2 mm wide. Blossoms in May-June, the fruits ripen in late August and September. The size of a berry grown in a swamp reaches 16 mm.

Common cranberries often grow together with another species – small-fruited cranberries (Vaccinium microcarpum). In Russia, small-fruited cranberries are considered as an independent species, however, in international botanical databases, they are often included in the synonymy of the species Vaccinium oxycoccos. All parts of this plant are smaller, the diameter of the berries is 4-6 mm.

Common dogwood – a luxurious garden shrub

It is very difficult to confuse the sweet and sour taste of dogwood jam: it is familiar to many from childhood. Common dogwood is widely popular with gardeners in our country due to its unpretentious care, easy cultivation and variety of varieties. More than 50 kg of berries can be harvested from one luxurious dogwood garden bush

In the late autumn, while picking mushrooms in the forest, people saw a bush full of bright red sweet-tasting berries. They took the shrub to their garden. And for a long time after that they made fun of the shaitan, and he decided to take revenge. The following year, the dogwood gave people a generous harvest, but in order for it to ripen, the sun spent all its strength. Therefore, the winter was severe and frosty. Since then, the second name of dogwood is shaitan-berry, and there is a sign among the people: a rich harvest of dogwood promises a harsh winter.

Common dogwood is a short spreading shrub with red fruits or a tree 2-5 m high. Dogwood usually grows as a shrub in the garden to make it easier to harvest. Shoots are easy to form, forming a regular round-pyramidal crown.

Flowering of the shrub comes early: in the middle lane dogwood blossoms from March 30 to April 20. A sudden cold snap or return spring frosts are not terrible for dogwood flowers. In frost, the flowers shrink and in this state they hold until the onset of heat. Flowering in dogwood lasts 12-15 days, at the end of which the shrub releases leaves.

Attention! When buying and planting dogwood seedlings, keep in mind that the culture is self-fertile, so two or more shrubs planted side by side are required to produce a crop.

The shape and color of dogwood fruits depends on the variety: breeders have bred varieties with pear-shaped, oval-cylindrical, elliptical berries of red, maroon, yellow, pink or orange, sweet and sour in taste and with a specific aroma.

Look at the photo of shrubs with red berries, the names of which can be seen above on this page:

Top 10 shrubs with fruits to decorate the garden in autumn and winter

When choosing plants for the garden, we first of all pay attention to its size and leaf color. But do not forget that multi-colored fruits can also give a special charm to the plant. And this is very important in the autumn, when the garden falls asleep, and in a snowless winter, when the eye wants to focus on something bright. And today I would like to talk about the ten most attractive, in our opinion, shrubs with multi-colored fruits.

Viburnum

Shrub, 2-3 meters high, blooms very profusely in late spring – early summer. By autumn, the bush is sprinkled with wonderful red fruits, and if they are not collected, then in winter they will decorate the bush and stand out perfectly against the background of white snow. The berries are edible and very healthy, especially for the elderly, but they have a specific smell. Viburnum tolerates pruning in early spring. The aphid loves her very much, so it’s worth monitoring in the spring – at the beginning of summer, have voracious insects appeared? and treat with insecticides in time so that aphids do not spread throughout the garden.

Rosehip

Another shrub with large red fruits and a huge storehouse of vitamins in your area. There are many types of wild rose, with different heights and shapes of the bush, they all belong to the rose family. In favorable conditions, it can become a long-liver. Rose hips bloom beautifully, sometimes twice a season, filling the garden with a wonderful aroma. After flowering, fruits appear on the bushes, turning red in the sun by autumn. They can be of different sizes: from small oblong to flattened round and quite large. The fruits can be harvested and dried to support your body with a rosehip decoction containing large amounts of vitamin C during the cold season, or you can leave them on a shrub to decorate the garden. Be careful, the rose hips are very prickly!

Aronia or chokeberry

We have already written about this wonderful plant as the owner of bright autumn foliage, but this shrub with black fruits can decorate your garden at any time of the year and even in winter. If you do not collect berries from it and leave them on the branches, they can easily be preserved until spring. The fruits are completely black, dense, have a beautiful bluish bloom. The height of the bush varies up to 2-3 meters, it is very resistant to garden pests and conditions of detention, but it will bear fruit well in the sun. It grows and reproduces very quickly. The berries are edible, have an astringent taste, they make delicious tinctures, it is great to add them to jams and compotes.

Snowberry

Shrub with white fruits. It will decorate your garden when the leaves have fallen and it has become completely empty. It is then that the snowberry comes to the fore. Children do not pass by him, because they love to pick his fruits and burst them on the ground with a pleasant click. The fruits can remain on the bush all winter, decorating the garden until the snow falls. Its height reaches 1.5 meters. It is quite unpretentious, it is only necessary to cut dry and diseased branches in time to maintain its decorative effect. The fruits are inedible, therefore, with all the love for them, the kids must be careful and not allow them to try to eat them.

Barberry

Another shrub with red fruits. Gardeners love it for its abundance of species and beautiful leaves. The height of the shrub is different depending on the variety. The fruits of the barberry are small and oblong, by autumn they acquire a rich red or purple color. They abundantly cover the branch almost along its entire length. As a rule, rarely anyone collects fruits, and they remain to decorate a bush that has flown around until spring. Fruits can be eaten during heat treatment only in a ripe state, unripe berries can be poisoned.

Hawthorn

This is a tall shrub, in some cases reaching the size of a tree and a height of 6 meters. Its fruits are very decorative and can be of different colors: rich orange, brown or dark red. In shape, they resemble small apples with a diameter of no more than 1 cm. The fruits can be used for food, they contain useful acids and vitamin B. But if you are not going to do this, leave the berries on the branches and they will certainly decorate your garden in the cold season, until they are eaten by your garden’s feathered neighbors.

Cotoneaster

This shrub can brighten up your garden with black or red fruits that fall abundantly in September. The berries may well last all winter. They are not used for food. Cotoneaster has different shapes and can decorate not only group plantings, but also an alpine hill, if you use undersized creeping species. It tolerates shaping well and retains its shape for a long time. Possess winter hardiness: cotoneaster chokeberry, shiny and ordinary.

Beautiful fruit

Not a very common plant on our plots, because not all of its varieties are able to survive our cold winters. It is unique in that in September it is abundantly covered with purple fruits. The shrub reaches a height of about 2.5 meters, blooms in mid-summer with pink or purple flowers. For our strip, the handsome bodiniera and forked are suitable. Rejoice in the delicate color of the bush until late autumn and in the snowless part of winter. In very severe frosts, it is still worth covering, especially for young plants. The shrub is not affected by pests and is easily restored after frostbite.

Elderberry

This shrub with black or red fruits will beautify your garden from September when the fruits are fully ripe. Depending on the variety, the height can be different and reach from 1-2 to 5 meters. Red berries are inedible, while black berries are used in traditional medicine, as they have a huge range of useful properties. Black elderberry can be shaped with good pruning. Elderberry endures ordinary winters with firmness, but if the temperature drops too low, parts that were not covered with snow may freeze slightly. After sanitary spring pruning, it recovers quite easily.

Euonymus

Shrub with red fruits of a very interesting shape, remaining on branches until snow and sometimes even in winter. There are quite a few types of euonymus and they will differ in size and appearance of fruit-boxes, but it will always be something unusual. The photo shows the fruits of the European euonymus. Euonymus has a fairly good winter hardiness and all of them have decorative leaves, variegated or plain.

Here are some shrubs you can keep in mind and plant them in the spring to brighten up the time when the gray filter prevails through which we are forced to look at the world, and this is quite a long period.

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These are small fleshy or juicy fruits that are harvested from shrubs
and herbs. You need to understand that in botany, fruits are classified in their own way.
(a tomato is considered a berry, and raspberries and strawberries are considered fruits). To
not to be confused, fruits are distinguished from berries mainly by size. Humanity
uses berries for almost his entire life: even during the primitive communal
stroy gathering helped to survive. These fruits are valued even now:
for its taste, low calorie content and rich in vitamin and mineral
compound.

Watermelon

This is the source of the necessary
amino acids, antioxidants, vitamins and minerals. In him
low calories and fat, but there is fiber. These berries are already
have long been used in cosmetology, and now their properties
actively studied by physicians. When consumed in moderation
watermelon contributes to the maintenance of normal functioning
cardiovascular and digestive systems, it also contributes
its contribution to the antioxidant defense of the body and helps
prevent the development of many chronic diseases.

Barberry

Barberry belongs to the genus of shrubs, rarely trees, family
Barberry. These are deciduous, semi-evergreen (the foliage is partly
falls), evergreen shrubs or small trees, with ribbed
upright shoots that branch at an acute angle. Bark
it is brownish-gray or brownish-gray. He has
and another name – caramel tree
.

Cowberry

Cowberry – perennial, low, evergreen, branching shrub
reaching a height of 10 to 20 cm. The leaves are small, petiolate,
leathery, shiny. Flowers white-pink bells, 5mm long,
collected at the top of the branches in rare brushes. Blooms in May – early
June. Lingonberry fruits are small, bright red berries.
with a characteristic sweet and sour taste. Ripens in August-September.
Cowberry is a wild forest berry. Found in the tundra
also in forest areas, in the temperate climate zone.

Elderberry

Elderberry is a perennial woody plant from the honeysuckle family.
Shrub or small tree, up to 3-10 m tall. Trunk
and the branches are grey. Leaves opposite, petiolate, pinnate.
The flowers are small, fragrant, creamy or yellowish white. blooms
from May to the first half of June. Elder fruit – black-purple,
berry-like. Ripens in August – September.
In the wild, black elder occurs between bushes on the edges
forests in the middle zone of the European part of Russia, in Ukraine, in
Baltic and Belarus, in the Crimea, in the Caucasus, in the south-east of Russia.
Elderberry grows in both sunny and shady places. reproduction
produced by dividing old bushes, layering and sowing seeds.

Grapes

Grapes – a genus of plants of the Grape family, as well as fruits
such plants, in their mature form, which are sweet berries.
Globular or egg-shaped grapes, harvested in more than or
less loose (rarely dense) clusters. The color of the berries varies greatly.
depending on the variety (yellow, greenish, dark blue, purple,
black, etc. In total, on the territory of Russia and the CIS countries grows
over 3000 grape varieties.

Goji berry

Goji berry ( common dereza
) or Lycium barbarum

belongs to a group of plants with the common collective name “wolf
berry”. By the way, not all plants of this group have toxic
impact on humans – its individual types have unique
healing properties. Since ancient times, the goji berry in Chinese
medicine has been used to increase libido in women and men,
as well as to elevate mood and improve well-being in stressful
situations. This plant is believed to help fight
with cancer cells, improves immunity and prolongs life.

Blueberry

Blueberry is a small shrub up to 1m high with gray smooth
curved branches. Leaves up to 3 cm long. Flowers are small, five-toothed,
white or pinkish. Blueberry fruits – blue with a bluish bloom, juicy
edible berries up to 1.2 cm long.
supposedly intoxicates and drives pain to the head. But really the culprit
of these phenomena, wild rosemary, often growing next to blueberries.
Blueberries are harvested for consumption in raw and processed
form. They are used to make jam and are also used to make wine.

Cherry

Tree or shrub, usually with several stems 1.5-2.5 cm high
m, rarely up to 3 m and above.
Leaves are dark green, oval, pubescent below, strongly corrugated,
with a pointed end. The flowers are white, white with pink (rarely pink),
up to 2.5 cm in diameter. Cherry fruits – oval drupes, red
when ripe, sweet (sometimes with sourness) in taste, smaller than
in common cherries (0.8-1.5 cm in diameter), covered with small
fluff. Depending on the region, ripen from late June to late
July, and on the same tree almost simultaneously; bears fruit
cherries are plentiful, usually in the third year and up to 15-20 years annually.

Melon

Plant of the gourd family, species of the genus Cucumber, gourd,
false-berry.
Melon is a warm and light-loving plant, resistant to soil salinity
and drought, does not tolerate high humidity. On one
plant, depending on the variety and place of cultivation, can form
from two to eight fruits, weighing from 1. 5 to 10 kg. Melon fruits have
spherical or cylindrical shape, green, yellow, brown
or white in color, usually with green stripes. Aging period
melons from two to six months.

Blackberry

Perennial shrub of the genus Rubus belonging to the family
rosaceous. Blackberries are common in northern and temperate latitudes.
Eurasian continent, in coniferous and mixed forests, in the floodplain
rivers, in the forest-steppe zone. There are practically no garden blackberries, so
lovers of this berry have to rely on the favor of nature
and wait for a good harvest of this wild berry.

Strawberry

Strawberry, a perennial herbaceous plant of the Rosaceae family
up to 20 cm high. The rhizome is short, oblique, with numerous
adventitious brownish-brown, thin roots. Stem erect,
leafy, covered with hairs. Leaves on long petioles, trifoliate,
dark green above, bluish green below, softly pubescent.
Rooting shoots develop from the axils of the basal leaves.
Blooms from May to July. The flowers are white, arranged on long stalks.
The strawberry fruit is false, incorrectly called a berry. He imagines
an overgrown fleshy, fragrant, bright red receptacle.
Strawberries ripen in July – September.

Irga

Amazing plant, Rosaceae family. She is undemanding
to growing conditions, able to tolerate frost normally
up to -40 -50 degrees, and during flowering frosts down to -5 -7 degrees.
Irga grows well on soils of various composition and acidity.
But there is an indispensable condition – if you want to get a large harvest,
sweet, with the aroma of fresh berries, it is necessary to take away the sunny
place. Therefore, irgi bushes should be located at a distance not
less than 2.5-3 m, unless you aim to grow high
a hedge, for which the irga is very suitable.

Kalina

lat. Viburnum
Red berry with a fairly large seed. Viburnum ripens
at the end of September after the first frosts. Until that berry is enough
sour with bitterness, and under the influence of slight frosts acquires
sweetness. Widely used in folk medicine.

Dogwood

Shrub 5-7 meters high, sometimes a small tree. Dogwood
has been cultivated by mankind since very ancient times, historians report
about dogwood bones found more than 5 thousand years ago during excavations
human settlements located on the territory of modern
Switzerland. Today, 4 types of dogwood are cultivated on the territory
most of Europe (in France, Italy, countries of Eastern Europe,
Ukraine, Moldova, Russia), in the Caucasus, Central Asia, China,
Japan and North America.

Strawberry

Strawberry is a perennial herbaceous plant, 15-35 cm high,
belongs to the Rosaceae family.
Stem erect, leaves large, light green.
Inflorescence corymbose of 5-12 flowers on short, densely pubescent
pedicels. Flowers usually unisexual, five-petalled, white
color, with double perianth. Between the start of strawberry flowering
and the beginning of the ripening of strawberries, a period from 20 to 26 days passes.

Cranberry

An evergreen shrub with thin
and low runs. The length of the shoots is on average about 30 cm, berries
wild cranberries are red, spherical, 8-12 mm in diameter. Some
specially bred varieties have berries up to 2 cm in diameter. blooms
cranberries in June, berry picking starts in September and continues
all autumn. Plantation berries ripen 1-2 weeks earlier
wild. Cranberries can easily be stored until spring.

Red currant

Red currant – small deciduous perennial shrub
gooseberry family (Grossulariaceae). Unlike black
currant bushes are more compressed and elongated upwards. Strong and thick
annual shoots growing from the base of the bush go to it
formation and replacement of old, dying branches, but over the years
their progressive growth is fading.

Gooseberry

Perennial, multi-stemmed shrub with a long fruiting period
and high productivity – up to 20-25 kg from 1 bush. gooseberry bushes
reach up to 1.5 m in height and up to 2 m in diameter. gooseberry – plant
temperate latitudes, tolerates slight shading, but rather moisture-loving.
The root system of the gooseberry is located at a depth of up to 40 cm.
It is best placed along the fence at a distance of 1-1.5 m bush
from the bush. Over time, they grow, forming a solid prickly wall.

Lemongrass

Lemongrass is a large climbing vine from the family
magnolia. Its length reaches fifteen meters, and wrapping around
trees, lemongrass resembles a grapevine. stem thickness
is 2 centimeters. The plant takes the form of a shrub in
northern regions. Berries of lemongrass 2-seed, bright red,
juicy, spherical, very sour. The seeds smell like lemon and have
bitter, burning taste. The bark of the roots and stems also smells like lemon,
whence the name – lemongrass.

Raspberry

Deciduous subshrub Rubus idaeus, or common raspberry, is distributed throughout the world – from Alaska and the Aleutian Islands to Hawaii.
In the people, the fruits of raspberry are usually called berries, which does not correspond to their definition in the botanical classification. From this position, for the raspberry fruit, a more accurate name is “multi-drupe”.
From the list of berry crops, raspberries are distinguished by a high concentration of antioxidants that prevent damage to body cells and stop the aging process.
This gives the right to call raspberries “the berry of health and longevity.”

Cloudberry

Small perennial herbaceous plant with creeping branches
rhizome. The stem is simple, erect. 10-15 cm high, ends
single white flower. Leaves wrinkled heart-shaped,
with a bladed edge. The cloudberry fruit is a combined drupe, initially reddish,
and when ripe amber-yellow. Cloudberry blooms in May-Nun, ripens
in July, August. Fruit – acid-spicy, wine.

Sea buckthorn

Shrub or small tree three to four
meters with branches covered with small thorns and slightly green
outstretched leaves.
Sea buckthorn is pollinated by the wind, blooms in late spring. The fruits are small
(up to 8-10 mm), orange-yellow or red-orange, oval.
The name for this plant “Sea buckthorn” is very apt,
since its berries are on very short stalks, on branches
sit very closely, as if sticking around them. Berries have quite
pleasant sweet and sour taste, as well as a peculiar, unique
flavor that is quite remotely reminiscent of pineapple. That’s why
sea ​​buckthorn is sometimes called the northern, or Siberian, pineapple.

Olives

Evergreen subtropical tall tree of the Olive genus (Olea)
olive family (Oleaceae).
The height of an adult cultivated olive tree is usually five to six
meters, but sometimes reaches 10-11 meters or more. Trunk covered
gray bark, gnarled, twisted, usually hollow in old age.
Branches are knotty, long. Leaves narrowly lanceolate, grey-green
colors, do not fall off for the winter and are renewed gradually over
two or three years. Fragrant flowers are very small from 2 to 4 centimeters
long, whitish, in one inflorescence from 10 to 40 flowers. Fetus
– olives of an elongated oval shape with a length of 0. 7 to 4 centimeters
and with a diameter of 1 to 2 centimeters, with a pointed or blunt nose,
fleshy, inside the olives contain a stone.

Rowan

Tree up to 10 m tall, rarely a shrub from the Rosaceae family.
Rowan fruits are spherical, berry-like, red, sour, bitter,
slightly tart in taste. After the first frost, the fruits lose their astringency,
become tasty, somewhat sweet. Blooms in May – early
June. The fruits ripen in September, remaining on the tree until deep
winters.
In nature, mountain ash is found in forests and mountainous areas of the northern
and the middle part of the northern hemisphere. Pretty easy to care for
most mountain ash looks great almost all year round.

Blackthorn

Blackthorn – shrub or small tree 1.5-3 high (large
species up to 4-8) meters with numerous prickly branches. branches grow
horizontally and end with a sharp thick spike. young branches
pubescent.
Blackthorn leaves are elliptical or obovate.
Leaves are hairy when young, turning dark green with age.
with a matte sheen, leathery. Blackthorn fruits are mostly rounded
shape, small (10-15 mm in diameter), black-blue with a wax coating.

Feijoa

Novolat. Feijoa

Green oblong berry native to South America. To size
feijoa is 5-7 cm in diameter and weighs approximately 20-120 g.
when ripe, the fruit becomes very juicy with a slight acidity.
A new plant was discovered at the end of the 19th century. in Brazil during
scientific expedition. In Europe, the fruit first appeared in 1890 during
France. From there, feijoa spread to the Mediterranean countries,
Crimea and the Caucasus. The tree is very thermophilic and maximum frosts
withstands up to -10°C.

Physalis

Common physalis (vesicle, dog cherry, marunka) – perennial
a plant from the nightshade family 50-100 cm high. Underground
physalis shoots creeping, woody, branching. stems it
upright. angularly curved. Physalis fruit – spherical,
a juicy, orange or red berry encased in a fiery orange
swollen, vesicular. almost spherical cup, thanks to which
plant and got its name physalis from the Greek word
“physo”, which means swollen. The plant blooms in May – August.
Physalis fruits ripen in June – September. Grows everywhere
in light forests, among bushes, on the edges, in ravines.

Perennial shrub belonging to the gooseberry family,
reaches up to 1.5 m in height with lowered yellowish-gray shoots,
brownish by the end of summer. blackcurrant leaves alternate,
petiolate, three-, five-lobed, bare above, below – with golden
glands along the veins, with a fragrant specific smell, width
up to 12 cm. Flowers 7-9 mm long, purple or pinkish-gray, five-membered,
collected 5-10 in drooping brushes 3-8 cm long. The fruit is black
currants – multi-seeded black or dark purple fragrant
round shiny berry with a diameter of 7-10 mm. Blooms in May – June
fruits ripen in July – August.

Bilberry

Perennial undersized shrub of the genus Vaccinium of the family
Heather, 15-30 cm high.
Stems erect, branched, smooth. blueberry rhizome
long, creeping. Leaves are elliptical, smooth, light green,
leathery, 10-30 mm long, covered with sparse hairs and serrate-toothed
edges. Blooms in May-June. Flowers are greenish-white with a pink tint,
single. They are located on short pedicels in the axils of the upper
leaves. Blueberries are juicy, black, with a bluish-gray bloom,
shiny. The flesh is dark red, juicy, soft, with many
seeds. Ripens in July-August. Blueberries bear fruit in the second or third year.

Bird cherry

Large deciduous shrub or tree of the Rosaceae family
(Rosaceae), up to 10 m in height, with a dense elongated crown, matte,
cracking dark gray bark, on which clearly stand out
large rusty-brown or white lenticels. Inner bark
bird cherry yellow, with a characteristic almond smell. young branches
light olive, short hairy, later cherry red, hairless;
the bark is yellow on the inside, with a sharp characteristic odor. Leaves alternate,
short-petiolate, oblong-elliptical, towards both ends
narrowed, serrate-toothed along the edge. White, strong odor
flowers are collected in many-flowered drooping brushes. Blooms in May
fruits ripen in July – August. Bird cherry fruit – black, shiny,
spherical, tasting tart, strongly astringent drupe with one stone.
The stone is round-ovoid, sinuous-notched.

Rosehip

Perennial, wild plant of the Rosaceae family. among the people
it is called the wild rose. Rosehip is not high
bush from 1.5-2.5 m in height with arched hanging branches covered with
strong crescent-shaped spines. Young shoots of wild rose greenish-red
with awl-like spines and setae. Flowers pink or white
with five free petals, corolla up to 5 cm in diameter. Blooms
rose hips in May-June. Fruits are berry-like (up to 20 mm long), red-orange,
of various shapes, with many hairy achenes, ripen in September-October.

Foreword

It is the berries that make the shrub truly versatile – all four seasons it will play its role in decorating the garden. Therefore, more and more often in the areas you can find an ornamental shrub with black berries, as well as red or white ones. In autumn and winter, such a bush simply will not be equal on your site!

Ornamental berry bushes in landscape design

Berry bushes are a special element in landscape design. Indeed, in addition to the forms of the shrub, the color of its leaves and flowers, its size, planting and caring for it, the gardener or designer must take into account how it will look in the fall when its berries ripen. And they come in a variety of colors – yellow, red, black, white, and from this composition in your garden can both win and lose. For example, red viburnum will fit perfectly against the background of a brick wall, shading its texture with clusters of juicy red berries, while a snowberry with white berries will look quite ordinary.

The same red viburnum will look good in splendid isolation – a tapeworm. However, a group of three bushes of different sizes is the most win-win option! It is best to place them in a triangle, giving the background to the tallest bush, and the front to two smaller bushes, it is desirable that they also be of different sizes. You can strengthen such a composition with undersized perennial flowers or decorate with large stones. It will look great both just on the lawn, and not far from the reservoir or next to the lantern. In addition, this composition can cover an unsightly wall.

Choosing a place for a composition is an individual matter. However, when choosing a site for planting shrubs, you must clearly assess the conditions in which they will find themselves. If this is a shaded area, there is absolutely no point in planting shrubs with brightly colored foliage in this place (for example, barberry variety Golden Torch
, whose leaves are bright yellow), otherwise they will lose their characteristic color in the shade. For the rest, consider the features and preferences of a particular ornamental berry bush, soil composition, climate and temperature.

Experience shows that it is most reliable to plant shrubs with a closed root system, that is, in containers. You will be sure that their roots are not dried out, not damaged during transportation, and in general the plant will transfer planting to a new place much better. However, even they will take root better if they are planted during the dormant period.

At the selected location, accurately mark the location and shape of the holes, keeping in mind that they should be twice the size of the root ball.
A mixture of peat, humus and crushed earth should be added to the bottom of the hole; in case of heavy soils, it does not interfere with adding sand to the hole. Then fill the hole with water and let it soak in.

After you have removed the bushes from the containers, you will have enough time to evaluate the composition and correct the arrangement of the seedlings. If you like everything, pour the earth mixture into the holes and gently compact the soil, creating a small depression around the perimeter of the pit so that water for irrigation does not spread. Then water the planted bushes and sprinkle the soil around the trunk with mulch.

Black cotoneaster: an ornamental shrub with black berries

Frost-resistant and undemanding to moisture, easily enduring urban conditions – black cotoneaster belongs to the group of shrubs that will not give the gardener much trouble. This ornamental shrub with black berries is easy to transplant, used by gardeners in both single and group plantings, as well as in hedges. The decorative form differs from the wild one in more elegant drooping inflorescences and large leaves, but in addition to its decorative purpose, the cotoneaster serves as a good honey plant, and its dense wood is a good material for pipes, canes and other crafts.

Cotoneaster berries are edible, although they do not have excellent taste. They can be used to color tinctures and soft drinks, add berry powder when baking gingerbread. However, cotoneaster berries and its young shoots are used much more often in folk medicine, recommending the use of fresh and dried berries for inflammatory processes and stomach diseases.

Ornamental shrubs with red berries on your site

Red viburnum – this bush will never be commonplace, no matter what competitors from abroad are imported into our country. A landscape with bunches of juicy red viburnum berries crushed by snow is an excellent decor for the landscape in the winter. In the spring, viburnum blooms with white bunches against a background of bright green foliage. Leaves turn red and brown in autumn.

Kalina is shade-tolerant, but it is best to plant it in open sunny places. Prefers rich, well-drained soils. In the conditions of the city, viburnum feels great. It is used both as a tapeworm and in group plantings. These ornamental shrubs with red edible berries look very harmonious in plantings with oak, linden and mountain ash. In the world, varieties of viburnum with yellow and black berries are beginning to gain popularity.

Tolerant of urban conditions and barberries. Drought-resistant, unpretentious to the soil, they do not tolerate only stagnant water. Numerous varieties are distinguished by decorative coloring of the leaves – from bright yellow to purple flowers. Barberries tolerate partial shade well, but brightly colored varieties will look best in full sun – in the shade, the foliage will begin to take on green hues.
. In addition to the color of the leaves, barberry bushes can also be selected according to the shape of the crown – dwarf bushes have a dense hemispherical crown shape, and tall barberries are most often found with spreading descending branches.

In any case, these ornamental shrubs are easy to shear, so the bushes can be given almost any shape. Haircut can be done at any time. Bright red berries are kept on the branches of bushes until spring. And although these berries are edible and very healthy, birds do not eat them. Barberries are ideal for creating a living thorny hedge, which, in addition to its decorative functions, also performs a protective one. The hedge can be done in a free style or cut regularly. By planting these plants in your home, you will get a double benefit – they will give life to your garden even in the winter, moreover, you will have viburnum tea, barberry tincture and healing cotoneaster berries in your arsenal of treats for guests.

Ornamental shrub with white berries – graceful snowberry

Snowberry lives up to its name – abundant large berries cover the entire bush and keep well until spring. It has received wide distribution due to its unpretentiousness, frost resistance and undemanding to soils. This ornamental shrub with white berries grows well on stony and calcareous soils, is not picky about lighting and does without regular watering. Bushes lend themselves well to pruning – new branches will appear very quickly in place of the cut branches, giving the bush more volume.

Snowberry grows very quickly, forming a lot of root suckers around the bush, so if you do not plan to restrain its growth, be prepared for the fact that instead of one bush in a few years there will be a small group.

In addition to all other positive qualities, the snowberry is also revered by bees. In landscape design, snowberry bushes are combined with tall shrubs, conifers or trees with dark green leaves. Decorators also use it to create a dense hedge or border. Due to the abundance of berries, the shoots of the plant bend in beautiful arcs, giving the bush nice-looking shapes. Usually snowberry bushes do not grow to a height of more than 2 meters. The shrub blooms quite early, blooms for a long time, although the flowers do not differ in decorativeness. Snowberry berries are poisonous!

Snowberry can be propagated not only by cuttings and offspring, but also by dividing bushes, growing from seeds. Moreover, the latter method is by no means complicated – immediately after harvesting, the seeds are sown directly into the ground, covering the top with sawdust or a dry leaf. In the spring, you can thin out the seedlings, leaving the strongest plants, and let them grow a little more. Already in the fall, you can plant a snowberry in accordance with the intended composition.

There are so many berries in our forests! Red, blue, black, yellow, various. The red berry of any plant is always appetizing in appearance. Bright, beautiful, with a glossy barrel, it hangs on a branch between green leaves. The hand reaches out to pick it up and put it in your mouth. But be careful! Not all red berries are safe. There are among them ruthless poisoners, eating which, you can pay with your life. Wonderful plants gave us nature. These are raspberries, strawberries, rose hips, cranberries, viburnum, lemongrass, lingonberries and many others. Their red berries are known to everyone and, perhaps, everyone knows about their benefits. They are used to make jams and compotes, bake pies and prepare tinctures, they are eaten raw and successfully used in medicine. But in the forest clearings you can find no less beautiful red berries that need to be avoided. The people dubbed them “wolf”, although each of them has its own name.

Honeysuckle

This one is most often called It is found not only in forests almost throughout Russia, it is also planted as a hedge. Honeysuckle has pretty nice creamy, white, or bee-like colors. Among the many varieties of this plant, there are edible ones.

Their fruits are slightly elongated, dark blue or almost purple. In either the forest or the common one in question, the fruit is a red berry. It is small in size, spherical, very juicy, bright, shiny, perfectly decorates the bush. Often two berries grow together in pairs. Children mistake them for red currants. The berries of real honeysuckle taste bitter, so you won’t eat a lot of them, but it’s better not to try. No deaths have been reported after consuming a small amount of inedible honeysuckle. But those who have tasted these berries may experience poisoning with fever, stomach pain, nausea, vomiting, and impaired stools.

Lily-of-the-valley

This delicate fragrant flower, which pleases us in spring, is unusually poisonous. The fruit of the lily of the valley is a round red berry, located on a stalk on thin, slightly curved stalks. Lily of the valley grows almost everywhere – in deciduous, coniferous and mixed forests, in oak forests, in gardens and flower beds. He especially likes edges and clearings with fairly moist soil.

The berries stay on the plant for a long time. They are especially dangerous for animals. People are rarely poisoned by them. The poison contained in all parts of the flower is called convallatoxin. Once in the body, it can cause cardiac arrest. Those who have eaten a small amount of berries have all the signs of food poisoning. It is noteworthy that even the water in which there are lilies of the valley becomes poisonous. But in strictly fixed doses, the plant is used in official medicine to treat heart diseases. Traditional medicine uses lily of the valley much more widely, for example, for rheumatism, headaches, and eye diseases.

Deadly wolfberry

Wolf’s bast, badhovets, wolfberry – all this is one and the same shrub with red berries. You can see it in the forests of Russia up to the Arctic zone. It blooms earlier than other trees and shrubs, decorating the edges already in March. Its berries are bright, juicy, very beautiful, about the size of a cherry stone.

They contain poisonous juice, when it gets on the skin and mucous membranes, itching, redness, inflammation are observed. Symptoms of poisoning are similar to those that occur with gastroenteritis. All parts of the wolfberry are poisonous. They contain a large number of substances dangerous to humans – diterpenoids, coumarins, daphnin, miserein, coccognin and others. Wolfberry is planted as an ornamental plant and in gardens. Avicenna used it in his recipes. Folk healers use this plant externally, in the form of decoctions and tinctures for rheumatism, gout, tonsillitis, dermatosis, toothache and many other diseases, but it is officially forbidden to use it for medicinal purposes.

Marsh calla

This very beautiful graceful plant is commonly known as calla. It is grown with pleasure in flower beds, used in bouquets. In nature, calla can be found where there is sufficient moisture. It grows in the European part of Russia, and in Siberia, and in the Far East. All parts of it are poisonous. Calla flowers are small and inconspicuous, collected in cobs. They are decorated with a white veil, taken by many for a large petal.

The fruit of the plant is a red berry, somewhat resembling a large stemmed mulberry. Calla juice causes irritation and inflammation of the skin, and if it enters the stomach, nausea, vomiting, convulsions, heart rhythm disturbances appear. Pets are often poisoned with leaves and fruits of calla lilies. They begin to salivate profusely, trembling, bloating, the pulse becomes very weak, but frequent. Death without urgent action occurs within an hour. For medicinal purposes, calla rhizomes are mainly used, they are added to some dishes even after special processing.

Voronets

This herbaceous plant with red berries can be found in coniferous and mixed forest belts, on marsh hummocks, on clay and rocky slopes. It is sometimes used in gardens as a flowerbed ornament, mainly because of the beautifully carved leaves. The crow has many other names, including bedbug (because of an unpleasant smell), stink, Christopher’s grass, again wolf berries. Voronets blooms in May-June. In place of small white flowers that stay on the stem for only a couple of days, berries appear.

Depending on the species, they can be not only red, but also white and black. There are up to two dozen of them on the stalk. They are also small, round, shiny, reminiscent of a small cluster of grapes and very attractive to look at. All parts of the crow are poisonous. When it enters the stomach, people experience nausea with vomiting, severe pain in the abdomen, convulsions, clouding of consciousness.

Aronnik

This plant looks like a calla lily, only its cover is not white, but dirty green-lilac, similar to decomposing meat. The smell is about the same. This is necessary for the plant to attract carrion and dung flies – its only pollinators. But the fruit of the aronnik is quite nice.

Its bright, shiny red berries look unusually attractive on an upright stem. The photo shows that they form something like an ear and look like beads stuck to one another. They are poisonous only when fresh. Dried berries are used in folk medicine to treat bronchitis, hemorrhoids and some other diseases. Aronnik grows almost throughout Europe and Asia. It can be seen on river banks, meadows, pastures, in bushes and on rocky mountain slopes.

Bittersweet nightshade

About 1000 species. Poisonous is the one in which the variety of berries is red. Black berries are quite edible, they even make jams, compotes, and bake pies. There is a nightshade in many regions of Russia, Ukraine, Moldova, Belarus. Grows like a weed. Some gardeners plant it to decorate fences and hedges.

Nightshade fruits are bright red, slightly elongated, resembling greatly reduced clusters of cherry tomatoes. Alkaloids, steroids, carotonoids, triterpenoids were found in their pulp and bones. The taste of nightshade berries is sweet at first, but after that bitterness is felt in the mouth. In case of poisoning, coordination of movement is disturbed, the heartbeat quickens, abdominal pains appear.

Red elderberry

Walking in the second half of summer along the edge of the forest or in the park, you can see a sprawling shrub, decorated with lush berry clusters. This is elderberry. Just do not confuse it with black edible.

This type of elderberry does not mean at all that it is not ripe yet. It’s just a completely different species of the same plant family. Red elderberry is very beautiful, so it is willingly cultivated to decorate alleys, parks and squares. Its berries are a bit like rowan brushes, but the leaves and the plant itself are completely different. Birds eat its red berries with pleasure, but for humans they are poisonous due to the presence of amygdalin in them, as it turns into hydrocyanic acid in his stomach. In small doses, red elderberry berries are used in traditional medicine as a medicine. Important: it has already been proven that red elderberry does not save from cancer.

Euonymus

Probably, many will be interested in the name of a red berry of a very unusual type – bright, juicy, with black dotted eyes. This is a warty euonymus. Its fruits have a rather pleasant taste, so they are eagerly pecked by forest birds.

People who see this may think that the berries are safe. But the euonymus is poisonous, and all parts of this beautiful plant are dangerous. Symptoms of poisoning with attractive berries are nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, convulsions, general weakness, disruption of the heart. Euonymus grows in broad-leaved groves, forests, loves oak forests and places with lime-rich soils. In settlements, it can be seen in the form of a living spectacular hedge.

What to do in case of poisoning

Some authors give recommendations on how to recognize whether berries are poisonous or not. One of the main signs of safety is the use of berries for food by birds and animals. However, focusing on this, you can pay with your life. So, birds, without the slightest harm to themselves, eat berries of euonymus, elderberry, nightshade, honeysuckle and others. To avoid trouble, you need to be guided by another rule – if you don’t know what the red berry is called and what it is, it’s better not to touch it. According to statistics, berry poisoning is more common among children. Adults should explain to them which berries grow in their area. If, however, poisoning has occurred, before the ambulance arrives, you need to wash the victim’s stomach, give adsorbents to drink and ensure peace.

We often hear about cases of poisoning by mushrooms, but we should not forget that other gifts of nature can cause us serious problems. Our article will introduce you to the types of poisonous berries and teach you how to provide first aid in case of poisoning with them.

Poisonous berries: precautions

Walking through the woods, you just want to put in your mouth seductively bright, beautiful and very appetizing-looking berries, here and there attached to the branches of shrubs and trees. Is it worth it to meet this desire? Of course not, because any of them can be poisonous to our body.

Symptoms of berry poisoning

Various types of poisonous berries have a strictly defined effect on the human body, but we will try to highlight the main symptoms
indicating poisoning. So, cause for concern should be:

• Convulsions
• Rapid pulse
• Labored breathing

First aid for berry poisoning

The very first aid is to stimulate the urge to vomit
– This procedure will free the stomach from poisonous contents. To do this, the victim should be given 2-4 glasses of water.
(you can add activated charcoal to it
– 2 tbsp. per 500 ml, salt
– 1 tsp 500 ml or potassium permanganate
). The procedure will have to be carried out several times.

If medicines are available, it is recommended to give the patient activated charcoal, tannin
, as well as any laxative and cardiac remedy
. In the presence of seizures, you will have to use chloral hydrate
. If there is no first aid kit, you can give the patient black crackers, starch solution or milk.
. Wouldn’t hurt to do an enema too
(if there is such a possibility). The victim should be warmly wrapped
and take it to the doctor
.

Forest honeysuckle

Forest honeysuckle – shrub
, often found in the Urals and Western Siberia
. Dark red berries
This plant, unlike garden honeysuckle, is poisonous. The ripening time of the forest variety is July-August
.

Wolf’s bark

Wolf’s bark – shrub or small tree
. The plant is common in humid forests of the European part of Russia.
, as well as in Western Siberia
. Oblong red-orange berries
wolf’s bast dot the bush in autumn. Even touching them can lead to poisoning.

belladonna or belladonna

Belladonna is a member of the nightshade family. Demoiselle gives a crop of black with a purple tint of sweet and sour berries of a flattened-spherical shape
already at the beginning of autumn. Most often, this poisonous berry can be found in central Russia.
.

Crow’s eye

This is a perennial plant.
has a low stem, on which 4-5 leaves are located
large enough and only one fruit ripens
. The raven eye is distributed almost throughout Russia
. This berry is blue-black in color.
a bit like blueberries, but it is very poisonous (it affects the heart muscle, paralyzing its work).

Snowberry white

White round berries
ripen by the end of summer, and then hibernate on the plant until the onset of heat. Despite the seductive appearance, the berries are absolutely inedible. In our country, the snowberry is used as an ornamental plant.
.

Warty euonymus

Warty euonymus is a deciduous shrub or low tree
, often found in the European part of Russia
. Euonymus fruits are very original – bright orange berries are decorated with a black dot
, and they ripen on a long “thread” (herbaceous stalk).

Bittersweet nightshade

Bittersweet nightshade – shrub with woody base
and long curly stem. Red berries with a bittersweet taste
, ripen in June
. The plant continues to bear fruit until October.
. Nightshade can be found in central Russia
, as well as in the Far East and Siberia
.

Marsh calla

Marsh calla – creeping hydrophyte
with large heart-shaped leaves. Its fruits (clusters of juicy red berries
) ripen at the end of June
. The plant is widespread throughout Russia (in wetlands)
.

Elder herb (stinking)

Stinky – herbaceous perennial plant
belonging to the honeysuckle family. Fruits (small black drupes with red juice
) appear in August-September. This plant is most often found in the southern regions of Russia.
in the mountains and foothills.

Privet or wolfberry

thermophilic deciduous shrub
olive families. You can meet this plant in the southwestern part of Russia
. Black and highly poisonous berries ripen in September
and stay on the branches for a long time. It is worth knowing that not only the fruits, but also the leaves are poisonous.
.

perennial herb
with thin stems and pinnate leaves. It can be found in the forests of the European part of the country.
. The fruits are elongated oval
, as they mature, they change color from green to white, and then to red.

perennial herb
with a thin stem and with large pinnate leaves on long petioles. Oval-cylindrical, slightly flattened and collected in a vertical brush berries
change color from green to black. You can meet this plant in the European part of Russia
, as well as in Western Siberia
.

Spotted arum

Aronnik is a perennial herb with a thickened tuberous rhizome and basal leaves resembling the tip of a spear. In August, the leaves die off, and a stalk with numerous red berries remains above the ground. In September, the fruits fall off, and in the spring of the next year, self-sowing appears.

Spotted Aronnik

Poisonous properties are found in the fruits – berries of common ivy, double-leaved maynik, May lily of the valley.

Poisonous berries
can not only poison, but also lead to death. That is why it is extremely important not to eat unfamiliar fruits, no matter how tempting they look.

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In this article we will get acquainted with the names of these and the rules for caring for them.

This is a shrub that has been grown in our country relatively recently. There are only two cultivated species. These include garden honeysuckle (also known as blue honeysuckle. Of course, you can find others, but they are all derived from only these two species.

Description

Honeysuckle, edible
is a spherical shrub that reaches a height of one and a half meters. Thin young shoots have a purple color. Old branches, up to 30 mm thick, have a bark with a dark yellow tint, leaves reach a length of 70 mm. It blooms, as a rule, in late May with light yellow flowers. The length of honeysuckle fruit ranges from 10 mm to 13 mm. The skin on the berries is blue with a light bluish bloom, and the flesh is bright red.

It can reach a height of 2.5 m, has straight shoots with a slight bend. The bark of this plant is brown with a reddish or grayish tint. Leaves up to 60 mm long. The berries are oblong in shape. In all other respects, it is very similar to garden honeysuckle.

Care instructions

Pruning of a young berry bush is carried out three years after planting, but an adult plant does not need any serious pruning. You should only remove dry or damaged twigs and shoots that are growing out of the ground.

Honeysuckle needs moderate watering, it should be watered abundantly in spring and early summer, but only under drought conditions to avoid bitterness of berries. If it rained periodically throughout the season, then you will have to water the honeysuckle only 3 or 4 times. After each watering or rain, it is imperative to loosen the soil to a depth of no more than 8 cm. In its natural environment, it can be found in a mixed or coniferous forest, because, as it prefers acidic soil. Blueberries love shade, so plant them under trees or other shady areas.

Description

Bilberry is a low-growing perennial plant from the heather family, the height of the bush does not exceed 35 cm. The root is long, but spreads in breadth. The leaves are smooth, up to 30 mm long, green, slightly covered with hairs. It begins to bloom in May with whitish-pink flowers. Blueberries are very similar to honeysuckle fruits, differing only in their spherical shape and size.

Care instructions

Regular pruning of blueberries begins at the age of 3, as always, dry and damaged branches are pruned. Many sources indicate that there should be about 8 branches on the bush, which are the basis of the bush. If a large number of side shoots appear on blueberries, they must be removed completely, since the berries on such branches are very small and ripen for a long time. Bushes that are more than 10 years old should be cut 20 cm from the ground, this procedure rejuvenates the plant and increases the yield.

Blueberries need frequent but moderate watering.
Excess moisture causes root rot.

One of the most common berry crops in our country. It is consumed both in its raw form, and jam, compote, and various liquors are prepared from it. It is also widely used in medicine for medicinal and vitamin preparations.

Do you know?
Currant appeared in Kievan Rus in the 9th century, and then migrated to European countries.

Description

Currant is a perennial of the Gooseberry family,
whose height reaches two meters. Young shoots are a light green shade, over time they darken and turn brown. Currant has a deep root system, which goes underground for more than half a meter. The diameter of the leaves varies from 4 cm to 12 cm. The currant begins to bear fruit two years after planting. Blooms with pale yellow flowers. The berries ripen in July and August, and depending on the variety, they have a different color and size.

Care instructions

Currants are best suited for a sunny position, the soil must be non-acidic and well drained.

After winter, all branches of the plant should be carefully examined, damaged buds should be removed, if most of the buds on the branch are affected, then the entire branch should be removed.

As far as watering is concerned, during a snowy winter, watering is not done often in the spring, as the soil will be very wet after the snow melts. If it was not there, then the currants should be watered as the soil dries. In summer, especially during the formation of berries, currants should be watered every 5-6 days at the rate of 2 buckets per plant. Water should be poured only under a bush, experienced gardeners advise digging a groove around the bush about 10 cm deep and 80 cm in diameter. After each watering, the soil is loosened. Also, between waterings, it is recommended to feed the bushes with a small amount. If the autumn was dry, then it should be watered before wintering so that there is enough moisture until the end of the cold weather.

Under favorable conditions, it can live for more than two decades, but there were cases when it grew for 40 years or more, while giving a rich harvest.

Description

This is a self-pollinating perennial shrub that reaches a height of one and a half meters. The trunk is covered with brownish bark with spines. Gooseberry leaves are pale green, up to 60 mm long. It blooms most often in May, the flowers are red or green. The berries are very rich in vitamins and nutrients, have an oval shape, are covered with bristles, and their length is 1.5 cm, but there are bred varieties in which the length of the berries reaches 4 cm.

Care instructions

At the beginning of May, loosen the soil around the bush, it is recommended to dig a groove of about 80-90 cm. If desired, you can carry out straw and fertilizing with organic fertilizers.

Gooseberries are very demanding on watering, special attention should be paid during flowering and fruit ripening. The watering procedure is similar to watering currants.

Pruning is carried out in the autumn, as the plant can be severely damaged during spring pruning.

This is a forest berry shrub, its berries look like a mixture and It would be most common to meet it in the forest, but not so long ago the blackberry was domesticated, many adapted to certain climatic conditions have already been bred.

Description

Blackberry is a perennial shrub belonging to the Rosaceae family. Under certain conditions, it can reach a height of up to two meters. Its straight, long branches have brownish-gray bark covered with sharp thorns, but hybrids can be found without them.

Blackberries bloom, like most varieties of raspberries, with white flowers. Her fruits are black, and their size depends on the variety.

Do you know?
Blackberries were brought to Europe in the 18th century from North America.

Care instructions

Only planted blackberries should be watered as often as possible for 45 days. Old bushes also need frequent watering, especially during the drought period. Most of all, settled rainwater is suitable for irrigation. It is better to drain running water into a barrel or other vessel, let it stand for several days.

Pruning is carried out every autumn or spring. First of all, dry and drying branches are cut off, and then branches that have already bear fruit are subject to mandatory pruning.

Lingonberries are the berries and leaves of which are valued by most people for the huge amount of vitamins and useful elements they contain. It has proven itself in folk medicine due to its beneficial properties. Lingonberries are widely distributed in wild forests, planted areas near fields, parks and summer cottages.

Description

Cowberry belongs to the Cowberry family.
This shrub reaches only half a meter in height. The leaves of this shrub are dark green and very dense. Flowering begins in late May or early June with pink flowers. Its berries do not exceed 1 cm in diameter, grow in clusters, ripen at the end of summer and are endowed with a bright, red color.

Care Instructions

Cowberry pruning is usually done only for decorative purposes, to thin out the bush, as it grows very densely.

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names and species, trees with red berries

Regardless of the season, berries are always one of the favorite dishes on the table. The pleasant and sweet smell of berries just asks in the mouth. Among all kinds of berries, red berries are the most popular.

There is a wide variety of red berries in terms of taste, size, ripening time, and useful properties. Let’s take a look at the most common types. , which is hidden under the beautiful peel of this berry.

Ripe watermelon

Recently, watermelon has become dangerous, thanks to unscrupulous farmers who grow them in inappropriate conditions, and suppliers store them incorrectly and do not follow the rules of sale. In order for watermelons to grow faster and become as heavy as possible on farms, they began to “feed” them with nitrogen fertilizers . These fertilizers include nitrates, which are very dangerous for humans.

Nitrates accumulate in the pulp of berries because they lack sun and water during ripening. If we consider nitrates as an ordinary substance, then they are not toxic, but when they enter the stomach, they turn into nitrins, which contribute to the development of cancer cells. And if the watermelon is stored for a long time, then the same process begins to occur in the pulp. Nitrites affect and destroy the transport capacity of the blood, as a result of which a person may develop hypoxia (lack of oxygen). This can be especially dangerous for children and people with diseases of the heart and blood vessels and diseases of the respiratory and excretory systems.

Unfortunately, it is impossible to say exactly which watermelon is dangerous, only if you grow this berry yourself. Therefore, it is better not to give watermelon to children under 2 years of age.

But of course, watermelon also has useful properties! The main thing is to choose and store it correctly. Watermelon contains the following useful substances:

• Antioxidants – carotene, ascorbic acid, thiamine and others
• Helps strengthen the immune system stabilizes eyesight
• Folic acid helps the formation of DNA and contributes to the proper development of a person.
• Removes excess toxins from the kidneys , prevents salt deposits and stones from forming, cleanses the body completely.
• Magnesium promotes the absorption of minerals and vitamins

Lingonberry

Everyone has heard about this delicious berry, about its medicinal properties, but few people know exactly which are useful, and which are not very attractive to use this berry.

Karelian lingonberry

The benefits of this berry can hardly be exaggerated. Consider these properties:

• Contains benzoic acid, which is a natural antioxidant and strengthens cell membranes
• Used as rheumatism remedy because it contains tartaric and salicylic acid.
• Ursolic acid has a positive effect on hormonal levels helps fight stress.
• Diuretics help cleanse the body.
• Chromium and copper help in the fight against heart diseases i.
• Potassium, magnesium and manganese help strengthen the walls of blood vessels , treat gastritis and anemia.
• Sugar helps fight depression .
• Helps in the fight against constipation , headache, weakness.
• Helps in the fight against hangovers .

Perhaps the most popular lingonberry dish is lingonberry juice. Juice is useful for those suffering from anemia, neurosis, poor eyesight, high blood pressure . Juice is useful for colds, has a positive effect on the skin and hair.

Despite the fact that lingonberries contain many useful microelements, there are also properties that can harm the human body:

• It should not be eaten by those who have increased secret function of the stomach and have an ulcer .
• Harm can cause people with low blood pressure .
• Lingonberry and its juice should not be consumed after meals .
• Berries accumulate radioactive substances, so its cannot be collected near burial grounds , factories.

Strawberry

A lot of controversy can be heard about whether is a berry strawberry , because according to the concepts of biology, it does not belong to one. However, for many decades, in the summer, strawberries are the queen of berries, but like others, they have both beneficial and harmful properties.

The benefits and harms of strawberries for human health

So, let’s start with the beneficial properties of this delicious berry:

• Fights microbes , beriberi, improves immunity
• Useful for hypertension , anemia, atherosclerosis
• Strawberry tincture can serve as a good diuretic
• Tincture treats diseases of the oral cavity
• Treats diseases of the joints , kidney, liver
• Helps get rid of insomnia
• Used in the fight against eczema
• Helps with weight loss , used as part of face masks.

Along with useful, this berry has harmful qualities:

• Strawberries should be eaten only by those who are not allergic to them.
• Strawberries should not be consumed if a person is sick with stomach and intestinal ulcers
• Do not buy the first berries that hit the market – they may contain nitrines.
• Berries may contain helminth eggs , so before eating the berries should be washed well under running water
• Do not use infusions for young children and pregnant women
• It is better to consume strawberries with dairy products, as they help to soften the effect of the active components of this berry
• Those fruits that were not eaten the first time are best stored in the refrigerator, because only in the cold are useful properties preserved.

Raspberry

Raspberry

It’s hard to meet people who don’t like fresh raspberries. The berry and branches of the bush itself have a lot of useful properties, and its help in the fight against colds is only a small part of them .

• Raspberry helps with colds because it contains a lot of vitamin C and salicylic acid, so it works almost the same as an aspirin tablet
• Essential oils in raspberries increase appetite , and fiber has a good effect on intestinal muscles.
• Citric, malic and tartaric acids in the berry promote digestion .
• Helps with constipation as raspberries are a natural laxative and are very gentle.
• Raspberries contain pectins, which remove heavy metal salts from the body . This quality is preserved after the heat treatment of the berries.
• Raspberry helps to lose weight , as it contains elements that promote the breakdown of fats.
• In raspberries there are many vitamins of groups A, B, C, D, E, PP , macro and microelements.

Raspberries are certainly very useful, but in some cases they can also be harmful. There are people for whom it is better to limit themselves in the use of this berry:

• People suffering from urolithiasis
• People with gout
• Do not use raspberries for gastritis and ulcers
• Dosing use for allergy sufferers and diabetics
• Do not give raspberries to babies under the year .

Barberry

This berry is known by the same name of sweets, always a welcome guest on any table.

Barberry branch with fruits

Benefits of the berry:

• Barberry has a choleretic , antipyretic, anti-inflammatory, bactericidal effect.
• The decoction is used in diseases of the gallbladder
• Infusion of barberry leaves helps with hepatitis and jaundice
• Helps with indigestion , chronic diarrhea, dysentery
• Elements found in bark and leaves lower blood pressure and improve heart function
• Berries are useful after childbirth as they help the uterus to contract to its natural size

With all the obvious beneficial properties of barberry, there are contraindications to the use of this berry:

• Do not use barberry for people suffering from liver cirrhosis
• In case of gallbladder stone disease barberry can become a source of exacerbation of the disease
• Barberry is contraindicated in pregnant women and breastfeeding women
• For children under 12 barberry will not be useful in the treatment of colds
• When making tinctures , remember that only ripe barberry berries are useful, but green ones are poisonous

Viburnum

Berries of red viburnum

Berries of viburnum red rightfully deserve the title of a pantry of useful substances for the human body.

• Use to prevent colds and viral infections . The beneficial effect is provided by the high content of vitamin C and antioxidants in the berry.
• Viburnum even after heat treatment retains its beneficial properties and helps to strengthen all organs and systems gives energy to the body
• Kalina helps to get rid of insomnia and acts as a mild sedative
• For the gallbladder and kidneys is a good diuretic
• The use of berry will help to cope with ulcers, eczema, abscesses
• The bark of the berry is also useful, from which tincture is prepared, helping to stop bleeding
• Viburnum seeds are used for restoring bowel functions
• With the constant use of viburnum seeds, you can feel better, the body is cleansed, lightness appears in the body, migraines stop tormenting, fatigue disappears , the heart rhythm is restored.

There are some contraindications for the use of viburnum red, and they cannot be ignored:

Pregnant women should not eat viburnum as the berry can cause uterine contractions and cause premature birth or miscarriage

Breastfeeding is also not recommended to use viburnum, as the berries will cause allergies in babies

Viburnum contributes to the formation of blood clots , so people with increased blood clotting should not use viburnum

You can not use viburnum for people suffering from kidney disease and gout .

Dogwood

The valuable properties of this berry fully justify the laborious process of growing the berry – after planting, with proper care, the berry bears fruit only after 16 years. The taste of dogwood is similar only to dogwood. Dogwood is very popular in cooking, it is used to make jam, compotes, liqueurs, wine, pita bread .

Dogwood

What useful properties does this berry have?

• Dogwood has anti-inflammatory, bactericidal, choleretic and diuretic effects
• A decoction of dogwood berries strengthens the immune system tones the body
• Dogwood helps cleanse the body of harmful decay products
• Regular use of reduces the risk of infections and colds
• Berry masks help heal wounds , get rid of skin inflammation
• Dogwood is used by women for weight loss . Berries stimulate the gastrointestinal tract, metabolism and remove unnecessary waste from the body.

These healthy berries can also be harmful, as they have contraindications for taking:

• Acidity
• Chronic constipation
• Insomnia

Cranberry

This berry is primarily known for being very nutritious, and thanks to nutrients it has a number of useful qualities :

• Cranberry is a storehouse of vitamins C, K, A . High content of potassium, calcium, magnesium, phosphorus, sodium. The composition contains iron, iodine, manganese and copper. The berries also contain organic acids – citric, quinic, oxalic, malic and others. Phenolic compounds protect against radiation and provide cancer prevention.
• Due to the high content of pectin, cranberry helps to remove heavy metal salts and radioactive substances from the body . Pectin binds and removes lead, cesium and cobalt compounds
• Cranberry treats scurvy , viral and colds
• Cranberry is a natural antibiotic
• Raw berry relieves hemorrhoids and varicose
• Amino acids help strengthen the walls of blood vessels
• Fresh berry compresses relieves headaches
• An ointment is prepared from cranberries to heal wounds from burns. The ointment also treats herpes and fungus.

Cranberry bush with fruits

This berry also has contraindications for use:

Women who are breastfeeding and babies under three years of age should eliminate cranberries from their diet

Do not recommend cranberries for people with high stomach acid

Red currant

This berry can be seen in almost all suburban areas, it can also be black. Most often, people simply do not know all the properties of red currant and treat it with disdain, but this berry is very useful:

• Red currant contains vitamin A and P, ascorbic acid. This has a positive effect on the condition of hair, skin , and also strengthens blood vessels and capillaries. Indications for use – diseases of the heart and blood vessels. A good tool for the prevention of strokes. This composition also helps to strengthen the immune system.

Redcurrant

• Potassium, which is part of this berry, helps to restore the functioning of the heart muscle , removes excess fluid from the body.
• Pectin in red currant helps to bind and remove toxins and salts from the body heavy metals, and also restores bowel function
• The coumarin in redcurrant helps reduce blood clotting and prevents blood clots.
• Currant berries contain fiber, which has a mild laxative effect on the intestines .

It is better to use red currants in moderation, as they can cause unpleasant conditions such as diarrhea and dehydration.

There are also contraindications to the use of this berry:

• Due to organic acids, intestinal irritation occurs, so do not eat berries on an empty stomach
• People with stomach ulcers , gastritis and liver disease should avoid red currants
• In case of pancreatitis redcurrant may worsen the condition due to stimulation of pancreatic enzyme production
• Redcurrant stimulates appetite, so should be consumed carefully, without overeating .

Red Rowan

Widespread low-value fruit tree, noticeable for its bright fruits. This berry is very affordable, but few people know about its beneficial properties:

• Rowan berries contain a lot of keratin, which helps to restore visual acuity
• Rich content of vitamin C in berries, which helps to strengthen the walls of blood vessels and capillaries
• During the ripening period, berries accumulate a large amount of vitamin PP, which has a good effect on the nervous system , relieves stress, irritation, fights insomnia
• Sorbic and pasarbic acids fight harmful microorganisms, prevent the development of infectious and diseases of the gastrointestinal tract .
• Red rowanberry lowers blood pressure
• Berries can be used as a diuretic , choleretic and laxative
• Juice made from rowan berries helps heal wounds and stop bleeding.

Red rowan bunch

Red rowan is contraindicated in certain diseases:

• Hyperacidity stomach
• Increased blood clotting
• Ischemia
• Berry allergy
• After suffering heart attacks and strokes .

Rosehip

This berry has a lot of useful properties:

• Strengthens the immune system , increases the body’s ability to fight viruses
• Strengthens blood vessels and restores metabolism . The composition of the berries includes minerals that strengthen the walls of blood vessels, reduce cholesterol levels and stimulate blood circulation. Vitamin P strengthens capillaries. Recommended for atherosclerosis and anemia
• Reduces pressure . It is recommended for people with hypertension, and also has diuretic and choleretic properties. Strengthens the stomach and intestines, fights ulcers.
• Stimulates digestion . A decoction of wild rose helps the absorption of sugar and fats, increases appetite
• Source of iron , so it is useful for those who lack this element in their body.
• Antioxidant. Removes toxins from the body and harmful toxins
• Helps in the treatment of tuberculosis
• Heals wounds

Rosehip

Rosehip has obvious beneficial properties and has a number of contraindications . You need to know about them in order to save yourself from unpleasant consequences:

• Badly affects the kidneys when taken in too high doses
• Rosehip is not recommended for people with increased thrombosis and thrombophlebitis
• Not recommended for hyperacidity of the stomach
• Rinse your mouth after eating rose hips, as berries have a negative effect on tooth enamel
• Do not use rose hips for gastritis and ulcers
• The use of wild rose in high doses contributes to the development of non-infectious jaundice

Cherry

Cherry has long been known as a berry that is healthy and as a product – a source of youth.

• Cherry is rich in vitamins B, C, PP and B12, minerals – potassium, calcium, phosphorus, magnesium, sodium. Organic acids in help fight a wide range of diseases
• Cherries contain inositol which speeds up metabolism
• Anthocyanins in cherries strengthen capillary walls
• Chlorogenic acid helps restore kidney function and liver function
• Pectin and fiber help remove harmful substances
• Iron and copper in cherry increase hemoglobin

Cherry

Not everyone can eat cherries, namely, the presence of the following diseases can serve as a contraindication:

• Gastric ulcer
• Increased acidity of the stomach and intestines
• Obesity
• Chronic lung diseases
• Impaired function of the digestive tract
• Gastritis

Bone berries

Bone

Useful properties:

• Bone berries are used for colds as a diaphoretic and anti-inflammatory agent. Lowers temperature
• Used as diuretic for edema
• Used in treatment of joints
• Leaf infusion relieves headaches
• In case of rheumatism and inflammation of the eyes lotions from berries of stone fruit are excellent
• In the treatment of dandruff a decoction of bone berry is used
• Bone fruit juice helps to strengthen the walls of blood vessels
• Used in the treatment of cystitis and hemorrhoids

There are also contraindications to the use of bone marrow:

• Bone marrow increases blood pressure , so it is not advised to use it for hypertensive patients
• Bone is not recommended for thrombophlebitis and varicose veins .

Hawthorn

The well-known berry is able to prolong life and improve the condition of the body.

Hawthorn

Useful properties are found in the treatment of the following diseases, as well as for prevention:

• Heart disease – tachycardia, some forms of arrhythmia, myocardial disease, angina pectoris. Hawthorn relieves pain behind the sternum, normalizes the beating of the heart, tones the muscles of the heart. Indicated in recovery from heart attacks and strokes
• Hypertension – normalizes blood pressure
• Diseases of the nervous system – irritability, insomnia, overexertion. Hawthorn has sedative properties, does not cause drowsiness, does not distract attention
• Kidney cleanser , you can normalize urination with hawthorn
• Hawthorn normalizes the functioning of the intestines and stomach promotes the healing of ulcers
• Berries remove toxins and slags from the body, cholesterol
• Hawthorn enhances blood clotting makes red blood cells more elastic
• Tincture and decoction of hawthorn can cleanse the liver
• Hawthorn has a positive effect on brain function being a vasodilator
• Hawthorn treats inflammation , prevents viruses and microbes

Any variety of hawthorn has a whole range of healing properties, however, improper use of this berry can cause damage and form an allergic reaction.

There are a number of main contraindications to the use of hawthorn:

• Individual intolerance
• Liver disorders
• Atrial fibrillation
• Autism of all forms
• Toxicosis
• Hypotension
• Renal failure.

All the berries mentioned above, of course, are a pantry of useful substances and have a beneficial effect on the human body. By eating berries, you can become healthier, improve your general condition and cleanse the body . The main thing is to observe the measure and know which berries are better not to eat with a particular disease.

Bon appetit!

Decorative trees and shrubs with beautiful fruits for the autumn garden

The autumn garden leaves no one indifferent. Before the onset of cold weather, trees and shrubs play with bright colors, not only thanks to the multi-colored leaves. Some cultures have no less attractive fruits, which are densely strewn with branches.

Most trees and shrubs bear fruit in early autumn, but some crops retain bright berries until winter. We have prepared for you a selection of the most attractive plants that are ideal for decorating an autumn garden.

1. Barberry

Among barberries there are deciduous, evergreen and semi-evergreen plants. In the autumn garden, common, Ottawa, Siberian, Amur and Thunberg barberries are especially popular. They have decorative leaves, flowers and fruits. In autumn, bright red barberry berries look great against the background of yellow, orange, red, green leaves of this ornamental plant. Often the fruits are kept on the branches even in winter.

By planting barberry bushes, you can create beautiful hedges. Also, the plant looks great in the autumn garden as a bright tapeworm on the lawn.

2. Euonymus

Euonymus does not require shaping pruning, so it is ideal for beginner gardeners. This undemanding plant does not particularly stand out in the summer, but in the fall it changes into a bright outfit in pink, red and purple hues. In addition, beautiful autumn leaves complement the unusually shaped fruits.

3. Hawthorn

These small trees or tall shrubs delight gardeners with their edible fruits in autumn. Depending on the variety, they are yellow, whitish, orange, brown, purple, black, but bright red is the most common. They are shaped like small apples. The fruits remain on the plant until they are pecked by birds.

Hawthorn is most often used in landscape design as a hedge; single trees also look good in the garden.

4. Elderberry

In May-June, the elder decorates the garden with numerous inflorescences, and at the end of August, instead of flowers, fruits form. The red elderberry, as you might guess, they are red, the black elderberry is blackish purple, and the canadian elderberry is dark purple. Red fruits fit more organically into the palette of the autumn garden, but they are inedible, unlike dark berries.

Elderberry of any kind and variety is good both as a “soloist” and as a member of an attractive composition in the vicinity of other ornamental shrubs.

5. Derain

Deren bears fruit with small white berries in August-September, but this plant also has decorative bright leaves and shoots in autumn. Thanks to the fiery stems (especially in young specimens), both white and red turf remain attractive throughout the winter.

Turf looks best in hedges or planted in small groups. The shrub tolerates a haircut well, practically does not get sick and is not susceptible to pest attack, therefore it is suitable for inexperienced and lazy gardeners.

6. Kalina

In spring, viburnum pleases the eye with large snow-white inflorescences, and in autumn the shrub fascinates with its bright leaves and red berries. By the way, there are species with pink, orange, black, bluish-blue fruits, but they are not popular in our latitudes. In the middle lane, the common viburnum is most often grown. Tasty and healthy bright red berries of this plant ripen in August-September. However, the fruits are harvested only after the first frost, then their taste becomes less tart and not so bitter.

Viburnum is planted as a tapeworm and in groups with other flowering and ornamental shrubs. It is also good for creating hedges.

7. Cotoneaster

Cotoneaster is decorative in spring and summer due to glossy leaves and small flowers that bloom in May-June. And in autumn, the shrub is strewn with bright red or burgundy berries.

In landscape design for the formation of hedges and solitary plantings, cotoneasters are most often used horizontal, splayed and shiny. And Dammer’s ground cover cotoneaster is suitable for an alpine slide.

8. Clerodendrum

In regions with a fairly mild climate, to decorate the autumn garden, it is worth planting a tripartite clerodendrum – a spectacular shrub with unusual fruits. He looks best as a “soloist” on the lawn or in the garden in the company of low perennials.

In autumn, the clerodendrum is covered with inky blue fruits that look like artificial beads. Each berry is surrounded by massive crimson pericarp, forming a kind of star flower. This gives the shrub an original look.

But keep in mind: Clerodendrum grows only in sunny areas protected from the wind and is afraid of severe frost. In the middle lane, the plant is carefully covered for the winter with dry leaves, non-woven material, spruce branches and again non-woven material on top.

9. Beautiful fruit

From the name of this shrub it becomes clear that its fruits are the most decorative. In September-October, purple-violet berries appear against the background of red and golden leaves. They remain on the plant even after leaf fall.

Sprigs covered with bright berries are suitable for creating winter bouquets. They keep their shape for a long time and go well with many plants.

10. Holly holly or holly

Holly is widely distributed on Christmas Eve, especially in the West. Branches with dark green glossy leaves and bright fruits are used as Christmas decor. On the site, this shrub is used mainly as a hedge. Small holly berries are most often red, but sometimes yellow and orange are also found. All of them are inedible.

11. Pyracantha

This evergreen shrub is often referred to as firethorn. In spring, creamy fragrant flowers flaunt against a background of dark green leaves, and in autumn and winter the plant is strewn with glossy berries of scarlet, orange or yellow.

Pyracantha is undemanding in care, but is afraid of frost, therefore, in regions with an unstable climate, it is often grown in containers. The fruits of pyracantha are edible, but they are very bitter, so they are not attractive to people. But birds love to eat them in the cold season.

12. Rowan

Many types of mountain ash are beautiful in autumn, in particular common, chokeberry (chokeberry), pomegranate. In August-September, numerous fruits collected in clusters ripen on these trees. Today, there are many ornamental rowan varieties with berries of various colors, but red and orange fruits are still most often found in gardens.

13. Snowberry

White or pink fruits of the snowberry stay on the bush for a long time, thanks to which they decorate the garden not only in autumn, but also at the beginning of winter. By the way, some varieties have red or black-purple berries, but so far they are not very popular.

Snowberry is suitable for making hedges and borders as it tolerates shearing well. Also, the shrub looks great in group plantings, can be used to strengthen the slopes.

14. Rosehip

Wrinkled rose is a widespread and undemanding shrub. From May to August, it is strewn with fragrant flowers, and in August-September, useful fruits ripen on it. They are usually red or orange.

Rose hips look best in hedges, but a single bush will also be a good decoration for an autumn garden.

Which trees and shrubs in your garden cheer you up in autumn due to their bright appearance?

Plants with colorful and useful fruits and berries – the decoration of the winter garden

The brightest and most beloved decoration of the winter garden, of course, can be considered the fruits of trees and shrubs, many of which are not only beautiful, but also edible, and also have healing properties . Of course, red clusters of viburnum and mountain ash come to mind first. Few people know that there are rowan varieties not only with red berries, but also with fruits of other colors. The rowan variety ‘Joseph Rock’ (Sorbus aucuparia ‘Joseph Rock’) has creamy yellow fruits, but they stay on the tree less than usual. In mountain ash aria (Sorbus aria) varieties ‘Lutescens’, ‘Magnifica’ – large orange-red berries, very abundantly covering the branches, less bitter, with a high content of vitamin C. Chinese mountain ash (Sorbus discolor) has yellowish-white or pinkish fruits ( zone 5), and in the shrub rowan Koehne (S. koehneana) – numerous alabaster-white, small, sour without bitterness on red petioles. Throughout the winter, the wonderful cashmere rowan (Sorbus cashmiriana) is decorated with white clusters.

The fruits of pyracantha. Photo by A. Pogrebnyak.

Common viburnum (Viburnum opulus) has even become a national symbol of Ukraine, embodying girlish innocence and beauty. A folk proverb says “There is no Ukraine without willow and viburnum.” Beautiful clusters are not only pleasing to the eye, they are a real storehouse of vitamins used in folk medicine and cosmetics, as well as food for wintering birds.

Yellow berries of sea buckthorn

Very useful are chokeberry berries, popularly called black chokeberry (Aronia melanocarpa) – a large shrub offered by nurseries in the form of a tree grafted onto a trunk. And of course, one cannot help but recall the no less useful and beautiful bright orange berries of sea buckthorn (Hippophae). Breeders have bred many varieties with different sizes and colors of berries, but they are all very useful and eaten with pleasure by birds. In our endemic, hawthorn (Cranaegus monogina), the berries also have medicinal properties, but are of little use for food and do not hang on the tree for long. However, it is possible to grow other species in which the pulp of the fruit is quite juicy and very palatable, for example b. “cock spur” (Crataegus crus-galli L.), and in bright red hawthorns (Crataegus coccinea) and plum-leaved (Crataegus prunifolia) fruits adorn the garden almost all winter. Traditionally, black elderberry grows in rural gardens, the branches of which literally bend in winter under the weight of bunches of black berries, which have long been used by housewives for filling pies. In the red elder (S. racemosa), the fruits are more elegant, but inedible.

Magonia holly with fruits. Photo by A. Pogrebnyak

In the countries of Western Europe jam is made from bluish-blue berries with a touch of holly mahonia (Mahonia aquifolium), and red berries of barberries (Berberis) are traditionally used in cooking. The black fruits of the shadberry (A. lamarckii) are also used for food, the variety “Ballerina” has larger berries, a beautiful crown, it is resistant to powdery mildew.

Fruits of an apple-tree berry in January. Photo by Victoria Roy.

Undeservedly rare in our gardens and squares are numerous unpretentious and frost-resistant species popular in the west (more often from Eastern Siberia, Manchuria or Northern China) and varieties of ornamental apple trees, which, after spring flowering, are covered with a mass of small, very beautiful apples of different colors. Malus ‘Professor Sprenger’ (zone 3) has yellow-red fruits, while Malus ‘Royalty’ is almost black-purple. Yellow small fruits of the Manchurian apple tree (M. manshurisa), slightly elongated, graceful, yellow in color with a bright red side, glossy – transitional apple tree (M. Transitoria), small red – berry apple tree, or Siberian (M. baccata (L.) Borkh. = M. Pallasiana) remain on the branches for a very long time, which gives the tree an additional decorative effect. These very frost-resistant plants, not demanding on growing conditions, resistant to pests and diseases, look great in avenue, group and single plantings on the lawn.

Cotoneaster horizontalis strewn with bright fruits all winter

Almost all winter the branches of cotoneasters and snowberries are strewn with bright fruits. Almost until spring, coral-red berries of wonderful cotoneasters remain: horizontal (Cotoneaster horisontalis), low (Cotoneaster adpressus), Dammer (Cotoneaster dammeri ‘Coral beauty’), willow-leaved (Cotoneaster salicifolius) and bubbly (Cotoneaster bullatus), and black berries of chokeberry (C. melanocarpus).

Everyone knows wild rose, dog rose (Rosa canina), which grows everywhere, which is harvested for the winter to make vitamin tea. However, there are many more decorative speciessuitable for planting in parks and gardens, for example, wrinkled rose (Rosa rugosa) with large, orange-red, slightly flattened fruits, or Moyesi rose (R. moyesii) – a large spreading bush, originally from China , whose thin brownish branches are covered with elongated fiery fruits up to 6 cm long.

Snowberry and its berries

I would especially like to draw your attention to the species and varieties of snowberry that are undeservedly rare in our gardens. Many are familiar with the white snowberry (Symphoricarpos albus). If you take care of rejuvenating pruning in the spring, then in the fall so many white berries form on young shoots that from a distance it may seem that the spring “white bride” – the Vangutta spirea – has bloomed again. There are also varieties of snowberry, in which the berries acquire very beautiful shades of purple and lilac: Dorenboz snowberry (Symphoricarpos doorenbosii) – ‘Mother of Pearl’ and ‘White Hedge’. Moreover, all types of snowberries are quite unpretentious, suitable for sheared hedges and tolerate significant shading. Therefore, they are indispensable in those places where other shrubs will suffer, for example near a high fence, in a shaded corner, under large trees.

In parks and botanical gardens, a large European spindle tree (Euonymus europaea) is often found, the branches of which are covered all winter with bright original fuchsia-colored fruit-boxes with bright orange shiny seeds inside.

The most diverse berries adorn the branches of species honeysuckle: endemic to our forests, absolutely unpretentious. tatar (Lonicera tatarica) in light red translucent round berries, often found in gardens honeysuckle-Caprifolia. (L. сaprifolium) in orange-red berries that attract birds. But the longest lasting on the bushes are the abundant red berries of Maack’s honeysuckle (Lonicera maackii).

Bright Pyracantha Berries

Fewer people are familiar with the beautiful evergreen pyracantha shrub. The name of this shrub comes from the Greek ‘pyr’ meaning fire and ‘akanthos’ meaning thorn. The bush is good on its own with shiny, rich green foliage, it is beautifully sheared, so it is suitable for topiary haircuts and impenetrable hedges. And in autumn it is covered with a huge amount of red berries, and there are also varieties with orange and yellow berries. In severe winters, young growths and leaves can freeze to the level of snow cover, but then they recover well.

Another interesting plant for vertical landscaping is the climbing arborescens

(Celastrus orbiculatus), covered in winter with yellow fruits with red seeds inside. This frost-resistant vine grows quickly, tolerates partial shade.

Nursery catalogs guarantee the growth in zone 4 of a very beautiful deciduous coral holly (Ilex verticillata ), whose red, very abundant berries adorn it all winter. It would also be interesting to try the wonderful evergreen holly, abundantly covered all winter with bright purple fruits (Ilex meserveae “Blue Prince”) – zone 6a.

The view of the winter garden can be attractive even in a snowless winter. Photo by Victoria Roy.

Garden centers offered showy shrubs in autumn, strewn with brilliant round berries of an amazing lilac-violet color, Callicarpa bodinieri `Profusion`. However, I want to warn gardeners, because this plant loves acidic soil and can freeze completely in a frosty winter.

Another interesting plant for areas with acidic soil is the wintergreen (Gaultheria procumbens) – an evergreen shrub 30cm tall, covered with red berries all winter (zone 5c). Gaultheria shallon has black-red berries up to 60cm high.

The cones of various coniferous plants look very interesting and can become a collector’s item. The cones of Korean fir (Abies koreana) protruding like candles are painted especially colorfully in red-violet tones. It was in winter, when the needles of larch (Larix) that turned yellow in autumn, fell off, exposing thin graceful branches, rounded, ovoid or almost cylindrical cones, similar to small roses or chrysanthemums, are clearly visible. Even when the seeds spill out, empty cones adorn the trees for several years (for European larch – L. decidua up to 10) years. The most beautiful cones of Japanese larch, or thin-scaly (Larix kaempferi) are first yellowish-green, then brown spherical (2-3 cm) with thin, leathery scales, similar to small roses, remain on the branches up to 3 years.

The most famous and useful for humans are large (up to 13 cm long) cones of Siberian stone pine, or Siberian stone pine (P. Sibirica), which produce edible nut seeds.

Peculiar narrow-cylindrical cones (16 x 4 cm) of Weymouth pine (P. strobus) hang on the tree for a long time, 1-3. Mountain pine (R. mugo) small beautiful cones ripen in November annually and abundantly. Beautiful long cones, with peculiar winged scales, abundantly cover the branches of the Menzies pseudo-hemlock (Pseudotsuga menziesii).

Pseudo-hemzies cones

The coniferous yew (Taxus baccata) has completely different fruits. Its seeds are enclosed in a bright scarlet fleshy pericarp 6-7 mm long and 3.5 mm wide. Interestingly, all parts of this plant are poisonous, except for the red seed pods.

Juniper fruits. Photo by Yury Myshanov

One of the main ornamental features of the virgin juniper (Juniperus virginiana ‘Grey Owl’) is the formation of a huge number of silvery berries.