name this berry

[wawhitey]

im not positive on these, would like some input. found at about 4500 feet, just below ridgeline, on east side of ridge in northeastern washington. image is a little stretched and funny looking from my resize.

[jmez]

Elderberry. Make great jelly.

[wawhitey]

weve got millions of elderberry around here. these are distinctly different. clump up the same, but color / texture and leaves are wrong. and its too early, none of the elderberry bushes are showing berries yet.

[jmez]

There are a lot of different variants of Elderberries, I think it is one of them. I have some in my yard that all of the foliage is dark purple and look like trees with bark on them.

[wawhitey]

There are a lot of different variants of Elderberries, I think it is one of them. I have some in my yard that all of the foliage is dark purple and look like trees with bark on them.

hmm. maybe ill give them the taste test haha. just seems odd, this area is super thick with elderberries and they all look the same. i see tons of them every time i go out and take no notice. this plant made me stop and think.. wtf is this? seems distinctly different. there are similarities of course, but its different enough that it caught my eye and made me consciously aware of the differences. of course the storm we just had yesterday just annihilated our berries around here. gonna be a slim pickin time for the bears.

[jmez]

Grab a couple leaves off one and take them in to your extension agent. They should be able to tell you what it is.

[wawhitey]

i know a dnr guy around here, he can tell you the name of every shrub out there. ill show him next time i see him, or maybe email it to him. youre probably right, probably a weird strain of elderberry is all. its definitely not the same as the rest of them around here tho. and we have lots. maybe second only to service berries

[Indian Summer]

Dingle?

[Elkduds]

Haven't seen that in awhile, its a Frankenberry. You might have been standing in Count Chocula when you snapped the pic.

[pointysticks]

Dingle?

favorite joke variation of all time!!

[ishy]

One of my wife's friends posted a what's this berry and took a picture of his cats backside asking what kind of berry it was. Not a big facebook fan, but that was funny.

[Olydog09]

Sambucus Glauca,

[wawhitey]

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Sambucus Glauca,

we have a TON of elderberry bushes everywhere around here, and all 15 million of them looked like this pic even a couple weeks after i took the pic of that bush that i posted at the beginning of the thread

and every single one of them the berries when ripe are a light dusky blue, not the dark purplish black glossy color of the first photo. the first photo may be some sort of early ripening elderberry i guess, but if so its a distinctly different subspecies. there ARE a lot of similarities, but there is also a very noticeable difference, enough to make the one bush stick out like a sore thumb in this area that is full of elderberries.