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Nov 17, 2021 4:40 PM CST
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Name: Vickie
southern Indiana (Zone 6b)
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Growing in southwestern Indiana in a small woods. Very prolific. Skinny, arching stems, some only 1 foot tall, others 2 or maybe even 3 feet long. I really thought it was beautyberry, but we have a beautyberry (Callicarpa dichotoma) that we planted nearby this spring and the leaves are different. The berries on this unknown plant are more reddish instead of magenta. The berries are about the same size as the beautyberry, but they have a little point on them and some do wrap around the stem like beautyberry.

Not sure what other info is needed. Sorry for any bad pics! My phone isn't the best.
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Nov 17, 2021 5:33 PM CST
Perthshire. SCOTLAND. UK
Garden Photography Region: United Kingdom Plant Identifier
Symphoricarpos sp.
Symphoricarpos obiculatus?

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Nov 17, 2021 6:28 PM CST
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Name: Vickie
southern Indiana (Zone 6b)
Bee Lover Garden Photography Celebrating Gardening: 2015 Daylilies Plant Lover: Loves 'em all! Region: United States of America
Region: Indiana Garden Art Annuals Clematis Cottage Gardener Garden Ideas: Level 2
Thanks, Silversurfer! That definitely looks like this plant.
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Nov 18, 2021 7:57 PM CST
Name: John
Scott County, KY (Zone 5b)
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Yes, indeed!

Coralberry is a great lowing growing shrub for open shade and edge of woodlands. It makes a fabulous taller groundcover, doesn't have much that bothers it, tolerates droughty summers and grows on average to poorer soils - and those fruit will hang on for a good long time through the winter.

Planted as an individual ornamental, one can head it back or shear it in early spring, and it forms a denser rounded mound. In native settings, no one plant is too dense, but it will readily colonize an area. It has survived here in competition from the invasive Bush Honeysuckles, and is thankful when the honeysuckles are beaten back and is willing to move back into newly open ground.

You can easily divide off a chunk and try it out in your landscape and see for yourself.
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Nov 19, 2021 8:08 AM CST
Thread OP
Name: Vickie
southern Indiana (Zone 6b)
Bee Lover Garden Photography Celebrating Gardening: 2015 Daylilies Plant Lover: Loves 'em all! Region: United States of America
Region: Indiana Garden Art Annuals Clematis Cottage Gardener Garden Ideas: Level 2
Thanks for all the info, Silversurfer! My mom is ecstatic that she has such a nice stand of it in her woods and is also very excited that it will feed the birds and give cover for the small wildlife.
May all your weeds be wildflowers. ~Author Unknown
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