Purple Berry Bush Poisonous. Black Bryony Tamus communis Part of the yam family and the only member to be found in the UK so it likes to make it presence felt. Eating the bark leaves roots and unripe berries will make you nauseous and develop severe.
And firethorn Pyracantha sp but both are bushes rather than vines and neither has a pod around the fruit. Eating just a few berries can prove fatal to humans. I rolled down the window reached out.
While the berries are not poisonous they are very bitter.
The flowers are in clusters white to pinkish. The fruit is a berry 25 mm diameter and pink to red-purple with a highly distinctive metallic lustre are very conspicuous in clusters on the bare. Eating the bark leaves roots and unripe berries will make you nauseous and develop severe. And firethorn Pyracantha sp but both are bushes rather than vines and neither has a pod around the fruit.
