Help Identifying a Possible Poisonous Berry and winning another argument with my wife

[freedom]

One of my kids ate a couple of these berries, only a couple so she's OK. My wife first thought they were pokeberries. I told her over the phone they're not and we don't have any poke salad growing in our yard. By the time I got home she convinced herself they were elderberries, which I'm pretty sure is wrong too.

It's a vine growing into a sweetgum tree. I can't find anything on the interwebs that looks the same.

 

[dial1911]

Yeah- definitely not poke berries. Not elderberries either if it's on a vine.

I'm going to have to consult a book at home later. I don't have any good guesses on this one. Tell you kids to quit eating things they find in the yard

 

[lftd&pwrstrok'n]

Let's see, vine growing w/ purple berries? Could it be muscadines? I can't see the vine in the pictures, but they look like small muscadines... Your child will be fine

 

[Patronus]

Muscadines? How big are they?

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Let's see, vine growing w/ purple berries? Could it be muscadines? I can't see the vine in the pictures, but they look like small muscadines... Your child will be fine

LOL. Took me longer cuz I brung a picture.

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[lftd&pwrstrok'n]

LOL. Took me longer cuz I brung a picture.

Only cuz I am at work and couldn't brung a picture

 

[freedom]

Definitely not muscadines. The berry are about the size of poke berries, maybe 1/4-1/3 in, across. Sorry for the lack of perspective.

 

[freedom]

 

[lftd&pwrstrok'n]

Definitely not muscadines. The berry are about the size of poke berries, maybe 1/4-1/3 in, across. Sorry for the lack of perspective.

I am still going w/ muscadines until one of our resident horticulturalists speak up.


Okay, changing my vote after seeing picture of berries in hand...

 

[DinkyDau]

One of my kids ate a couple of these berries, only a couple so she's OK. My wife first thought they were pokeberries. I told her over the phone they're not and we don't have any poke salad growing in our yard. By the time I got home she convinced herself they were elderberries, which I'm pretty sure is wrong too.

It's a vine growing into a sweetgum tree. I can't find anything on the interwebs that looks the same.

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Go to Walter Reeves link on WSB Radio..He is the GURU of plants, click on his link and he has a ton of great info when it comes to plants....DD

 

[freedom]

The inside looks very muscadine-like, clear flesh with fairly large seeds. I touched the flesh to my tongue and it numbed my tongue a little.