I live in Southern Ontario, Canada. Noticed these growing along the fence line and my dog keeps sniffing around them. Anyone know what they are?
by BeeStingSurvivor
I live in Southern Ontario, Canada. Noticed these growing along the fence line and my dog keeps sniffing around them. Anyone know what they are?
by BeeStingSurvivor
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those are a type of nightshade, related to peppers, tomatoes, eggplants, and potatoes, but i couldn’t tell you if these ones are the extremely poisonous ones or the edible ones. i think the poison ones have a bigger leafy top on the berries so these might be the edible ones, but PLEASE don’t take my word for that. i only know that it’s nightshade
This looks like a variety of poke weed from the nightshade family, id consider it poisonous
I think you have two different types of nightshade there. The first one looks like bittersweet nightshade; you can see one of the berries in the cluster it seems is turning red, and the leaf shape looks right compared to the ones I’ve seen around here.
The second nightshade is one of the black nightshade species. There are a bunch and they form a species complex and are very similar, and I’m not an expert in distinguishing them. However, the ripe berries of all the black nightshades species are edible. They’re ripe when they’re nice and black and a bit matte. They’re not ready yet if they’re still more purple than black, or there’s any green on the berry, at all.