Purple Flower Yellow Berry Tree. Goldfinches eat the seed in winter. Unfortunately this vine with purple flowers is only hardy in zones 8 through 10.
Very thorny common hedgerow shrub or tree. Needs moist well-drained soil. Rather they are galls that occur as a reaction to parasitic wasps and other creatures that lay their eggs on the trees branches or leaves.
Berries are sweetest after the first frost.
Leaves parted into threadlike segments. Purple bitter fruits with a distinctive white bloom on the skin sometimes used to make sloe gin. Purple green pink or yellow berries appear in June through August on woody climbing vines that survive year after year on roadsides old fields and. This gorgeous chocolate vine produces flowers with a sweet somewhat spicy aroma of chocolate.
