Plant ID please!

[Soggy Bottom Ranch]

Can anyone end my husbands misery, and identify this plant please? We have several types of wild berries in our woods that he has been picking, but he hasn't been able to identify this one, and it's bugging the heck out of him!!!

He said the plant is about 4' tall, and the bigger leaves are about 4" x 4" in diameter.

 

[Witts Mini Horse Ranch]

cannot say 100%...but sure looks like strawberries to me.

 

[LittleRibbie]

Perhaps some sort of wild blackberry....not ripe

Where do you live?

 

[Soggy Bottom Ranch]

We're in wisconsin. Unlike a blackberry or raspberry that is one big berry, these are all individual little round berries on their own stems. They look like they'd be one big berry, but they are not.

 

[Soggy Bottom Ranch]

Found it! I just found a plant identification forum, and was able to have someone identify it very quickly. It's a Aralia racemosa.

If anyone is ever looking to identify a plant, this forum was extremely helpful. It's called:

Plant and Tree Identification Discussion Forum

 

[Jill]

Geri --

Thanks for that link! I have bookmarked it

Jill

 

[Sterling]

This is a neat website!! Thanks for posting the link!! I bookmarked it too!!

 

[Soggy Bottom Ranch]

Oh, you are very welcome for the link! Might come in handy at some point I thought.

 

[ErikaS.]

So are they edible?

 

[CyndiM]

It looks like an Elderberry to me. They grow wild here. And they are very much edible. You can take a sample to you local garden center or Ag office and they can identify it for you.

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[minimule]

Looks like a boysenberry bush to me.

 

[Soggy Bottom Ranch]

Nope, they are NOT edible. If you go back up to post #5, I put a link on there to what it is, and to the forum that helped me identify the plant. I thought that forum might come in handy at some point if you ever need help identifying anything. I put a couple posts on there that I needed identified, and had the answer from someone within a half hour of posting!

The interesting thing about that plant, even though it says the berries are inedible, it says that a one time the roots were used to flavor teas and root beers.

 

[bluetaterbaby]

Hey, thanks for the link! I really enjoyed checking it out. I'm always finding plants and flowers that I like, but can't remember some and don't know others. So much beauty to see in this great, big world. I bookmarked it as well.

God bless,

Joan