Prickly Bush With Red Berries

The red currant grows to only 8 feet tall while the northern prickly ash can grow up to 25 feet in height.

Prickly bush with red berries. A prickly tropical shrub caesalpinia formerly poinciana pulcherrima with bipinnate leaves and racemes of showy orange red flowers with long crimson filaments. American winterberry ilex verticillata is a red berry producing north american holly. Its early spring rose pink flowers give way to oval red berries. This evergreen shrub also produces red berries from april to may that are edible should you choose to brave the spiky thicket.

Flowers are followed by large edible red hips that last through winter. Spreading cotoneaster cotoneaster divaricatus is a quickly growing bush with dark green deciduous 1 inch leaves that bring long lasting shades of purple orange or yellow to the fall garden. The shrub can grow up to 6 feet high and wide. This spreading prickly bush grows up to 3 feet tall with a spread up to 12 feet wide.

Don t mistake the red currant shrub with the northern prickly ash both of which produce red berries in mid to late summer that persist through the fall. Found in usda plant hardiness zones 5 through 8 the wild rose rosa carolina is a woody shrub that blooms from late spring through fall with fragrant pink and purple blossoms.