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L. hirsuta
What appear to me to be red berries
Off a mowed trail with woods on either side
I've seen these throughout the park at this time of year. Not sure if they're edible or even berries for that matter. They're pretty though. Reply copied from Facebook when asked for helping identifying this Honeysuckle for me: "Minnesota Wildflowers: Janelle, sorry for the delay responding to your query. Facebook didn't notify us of your post. There are only 3 vining plants of the ~10 honeysuckle species in Minnesota so that narrows down the choices significantly. Lonicera sempervirens is commonly called "trumpet" honeysuckle but that species isn't on the DNR's MN plant list, besides the photos I've seen show it typically has red or orange flowers. If your mystery plant has yellow or white flowers, that rules out Lonicera dioica (wild honeysuckle), which is found in your area but has red flowers. It wouldn't be L. reticulata (grape honeysuckle) because its range is limited to the SE counties so you wouldn't find it in Ottertail county, at least not growing naturally. By process of elimination that leaves L. hirsuta, hairy honeysuckle. Mystery solved?" so I'm going with the experts here on this one. Forgive me if I'm wrong.
Mark Ridgway-I saw it but didn't point it out earlier as I wasn't sure it was a stalk or was even attached to the fruit...Augh So much confusion over such a simple image. So sorry but thank you for trying to help! And thank you too Leuba Ridgway and medusasnakes123! I think I'm going to let this one rest now. "-)
Hey Janelle.. I really should have put my specs on and would have seen the little green stalk under this cluster. Leuba is right of course. We have nothing like this here. Good job y'all. :-)
Janelle, now we just have to hope that there are no more species of Lonicera your way, to confuse us !! I wouldn't have thought of honey suckle either. The ones we have here are more delicate and I've only seen single black berries on them. Well, we worked out the genus anywayt - so, that's good. :)
Bravo, you! I couldn't find a link with a decent image of this in the berry stage. I'll still try to confirm it with the folks at Minnesota Wildflowers but I'm hedging towards this one. I know, right?!! Two hours just flew by faster than a Ruby-throated Hummingbird guarding its territory. Yikes! Thank you again for pointing me in the Honeysuckle direction. Its so low to the ground I never would have thought of it. :-)))
Janelle, It does look like Grape Honeysuckle as you say, given the distribution and physical characteristics - broader leaves and more grape-like fruit clusters, as in this link.
http://climbers.lsa.umich.edu/?p=194
You should be right to go with L.reticulata ! also, you've seen the plant and know what it actually looks like. It's a spotting I've certainly learnt from. Thanks.
Perhaps I'll post the image on the Minnesota wildflower site or fan page on Facebook and see if someone there can nail it down for me. Thank you sooo much for all your help here.
Leuba-I do recall seeing little trumpet-like flowers on these plants but they were light yellow or creamy-white in color I think. The leaves were circular, shiny and I think singular to each berry cluster
Leuba-I think you're on to something here. Either Trumpet or the grape honeysuckle whose round, shiny leaves actually look a bit more similar It is also located in Minnesota http://plants.usda.gov/core/profile?symb... however trumpeter honeysuckle is not showing here: http://plants.usda.gov/core/profile?symb...
Here is another link with information on flowers and berries
http://www.catnapin.com/WildFlowers/Vine...
Flowers usually result in fruit of some sort and in this case, the cluster of flowers end up in a lovely cluster of berries. These berries start of as trumpet-shaped flowers. Please check reference link.
I think I agree with Leuba AND Mark Ridgway, but I think more strongley that they are the Trumpet Honeysuckle "Berries."
But also, Leuba, I looked on where you found the picture and saw the picture that "melody" put on. Melody's picture looks a lot like JanelleL.Streed's picture, but "melody's picture was the only picture that looked like a berry, not a trumpet. So i'm not sure on this one.
Leuba, I saw your suggestion and searched for pictures of it on the computer. Trumpet Honeysuckles are long flowers that look like trumpets, and not berries.
The berries are on a stalk which are just visible against the leaf blade. A native of Eastern U.S.
http://www.missouriplants.com/Redopp/Lon...
"-) Thank you so much Mark Ridgway and medusasnakes123! Really? We do have galls that I've seen on stalks of certain plants but usually the gulls are hard and bulbous. I've seen these "eggs" throughout the park, especially on this particular plant and they were all over during this time period. The leafs are round on delicate, almost stretchable or elastic-like stems. I may have an image of the full plant but if so, taken on a different date than this one. :-( I was completely focused on getting pictures of berries this day...not the plant unfortunately.
These are likely to be leaf galls probably made by a type of wasp. The type of tree would be important for identity. They come in all sorts of shapes, colours and sizes. They would not be very edible as they would be made of 'leaf' material and contain one or more larval insects inside. :-) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gall
They kind of look like eggs or an egg sack, and if they are berries my guess is that they are NOT edible, so do not taste them, and after handling you should wash your hands in case they are harmful to skin or anything esle.
Spotted on Aug 1, 2013
Submitted on Feb 17, 2014
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