Purple Berry Bush Poisonous. While the berries are not poisonous they are very bitter. However the entire plant outside of the ripened cooked berries is poisonous for humans to eat.
Then the shrub lives up to its name with a spectacular show of intense purple or white berries in fall that last after the leaves have fallen. The fruit is a berry 25 mm diameter and pink to red-purple with a highly distinctive metallic lustre are very conspicuous in clusters on the bare. Johnson a rhus tree in autumn foliage.
There are natural medicine preparations that use the leaves of this plant to induce vomiting.
Onion garlic leek and chive. The flowers are in clusters white to pinkish. Eating the bark leaves roots and unripe berries will make you nauseous and develop severe. Sep 30 2011 sep 30.
