Black alder buckthorn

Latin name: Frangula alnusGenera: Buckthorn family: Goutwood, dogberry, cobbler wood, powder wood Its berries are poisonous! Plant description: Inconspicuous, greenish flowering shrub, dark, light gray dotted bark. Its name is based on the putrid smell of fresh bark. The branches are thornless (in contrast to the buckthorn). The berries, which are blue-black when ripe, reach … Black alder buckthorn