berry are popularly think to be any yield that is little , colorful , and sometimes edible . phytologist define a berry as a overweight fruit that is produce from a single ovary embedded with source . A strawberry is an example . Several desert plant yield what look like Chuck Berry ; most of these are bitter and inedible .

Desert Hackberry

The Desert Hackberry ( Celtis pallida)–also called Spiny Hackberry , Granjeno , Garabata and Chaparral – is a spiny , sprawling bush aboriginal to the deserts of the Southwest from Texas through Arizona and Confederacy into Mexico . The Desert Hackberry hold back shrewd thorns on stout limb and produces yellow flower . Its cherubic , orangish Chuck Berry , which have a single seed , are bring out in the surrender ; they are a favorite food of birds and little mammals .

Red Barberry

The Red Barberry ( Mahonia haematocarpa ) is a desert evergreen with waxy , patrician - greenish leaves that resemble that of the holly industrial plant . It yields clusters of bright yellow peak and risque , shiny - red berries that are ½ inch blanket . These true berries are eatable but sour . The plant is aboriginal to desert areas of Texas , New Mexico , Arizona and Nevada .

Wolfberry

The Wolfberry ( Lycium exsertum ) also called the Arizona Desert - Thorn , is a thorny , silvery - gray shrub that grow 6 feet tall and is vulgar in dry wash of the lower Sonora Desert . The wolfberry works produces milklike - green flush ting with purpleness ; its yellowish - brown to flushed Berry taste vaguely like tomatoes and incorporate several seed .

Sugar Bush

The Sugar Bush ( Rhus ovate ) is an evergreen plant bush native to Southern California and Arizona . It lives among bush in the upper Sonoran desert and array from Santa Barbara , California , S to Baja , California . The plant ’s reddish berry , in reality a stone fruit ( meaning that it contains a single cum ) , is ¼ to 2/3 inch all-encompassing . Combined with sugar , the berry makes a drink not unlike lemonade .

Juniper Berries

The Utah Juniper ( Cupressaceae Juniperus osteosperma ) and other specie of juniper produce what look like Berry and are called berries , but are in reality Charles Edward Berry - same cones . The Berry of the Utah Juniper are ¼ to ½ inch astray and turn from blue - gray to ruddy - chocolate-brown when they are ripe .

The Common Juniper ( Juniperus communis ) , grown throughout temperate climate of North America and Europe , yield the berries that are used as a culinary seasoning and to season gin and other distilled liquors . The Utah Juniper is retrieve in the comeupance of the American Southwest .

Western Soapberry

The Western Soapberry ( Sapindaceae ) , is a 10- to 50 - foot - tall tree with low branches and a round jacket crown regain in arid area of Texas and the American Southwest . It produces clustering of cream - colored efflorescence and a yellow fruit , or berry , that is about ½ in astray . The berry bear the alkaloid saponin , making it vicious .

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