# Please identify this plant with orange berries

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**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [August 4, 2010, 7:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-identify-this-plant-with-orange-berries/549182 "2010-08-04T19:15:55Z")\
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**Author:** ![Swords\_to\_Plowshares](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b38774/32.png) [@Swords\_to\_Plowshares](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Swords_to_Plowshares)\
**Post date:** [August 4, 2010, 7:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-identify-this-plant-with-orange-berries/549182/1 "2010-08-04T19:15:55Z")

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Here it is: [http://imgur.com/LEWg9.jpg](http://imgur.com/LEWg9.jpg)

I pass by this plant every day on my walk to class. It is a rather large, um, shrub-like plant with those small bright orange berries growing next to the sidewalk. What kind of plant is it, and are those berries edible?

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**Author:** ![Squink](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b5e925/32.png) [@Squink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Squink)\
**Post date:** [August 4, 2010, 7:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-identify-this-plant-with-orange-berries/549182/2 "2010-08-04T19:34:14Z")

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That’s a [bush honeysuckle](http://extension.entm.purdue.edu/caps/pestinfo/asianbushhoneysuckle.htm).

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**Author:** ![Bewildebeest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/779978/32.png) [@Bewildebeest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bewildebeest)\
**Post date:** [August 6, 2010, 12:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-identify-this-plant-with-orange-berries/549182/3 "2010-08-06T00:56:20Z")

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There are edible honeysuckles, this isn’t one of them. Or rather, it’s edible but not exactly palatable.