This tree is right in front of my picture window and I look at it every day while I'm working. In the spring it has pretty white flowers on it and this time of year it's full of berries. I've lately seen squirrels cavorting in the limbs. Any idea what kind of tree it is? I'm assuming the berries are poisonous.

Flowering Dogwood.

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Flowering Dogwood.

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Yep, Dogwood it is. I'd be mildly concerned about the spots on the leaves- Possible fungus?

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Nice...and quick. Thanks! If the berries are edible by squirrels and birds, I'm a little surprised we don't see them in there more often. Then again, there are berries on the ground beneath the tree, too.

As for the spots on the leaves, who knows. Frankly, every year or so, I have to cut back a few overhanging limbs that hit the electrical cables that go to the house. I've wanted to cut the lower branches that I've hit my head on more than once while mowing, but my wife doesn't want to go that far.

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Cool. Thanks.

I have a big Korean Dogwood tree in the backyard that came with the house. Every year in the late summer, it drops a huge mess of berries. When they ripen they have a lot of juice/liquid inside them. They drop into the grass below, leaking everywhere. Then they start rotting, attracting swarms of fruit flies/gnats.

Too small to rake. Too big to blow with the leaf blower. Too many to pick up by hand. I've resorted to using a shop vac to vacuum them up from the grass.

It's a pretty tree in the Spring for 2 weeks.

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I'm assuming the berries are poisonous.

Brings back memories of childhood. Most every small, red berry on any bush or tree was known to my neighborhood gang as “poison berries”.

I wonder how poisonous these things really are. Can’t be too bad if squirrels eat them. As far as that’s concerned, any berry can’t be too poisonous, or why would the tree/bush bother to make them and put its seeds inside them.

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I'm assuming the berries are poisonous.

Brings back memories of childhood. Most every small, red berry on any bush or tree was known to my neighborhood gang as “poison berries”.

I wonder how poisonous these things really are. Can’t be too bad if squirrels eat them. As far as that’s concerned, any berry can’t be too poisonous, or why would the tree/bush bother to make them and put its seeds inside them.

It's been a long time since I've been around a Dogwood tree and we never had one in our yard, but I don't recall anything eating the berries, squirrels, birds, or otherwise, because as d4 describes they'd be all over the ground underneath the tree and remain uneaten. Not so the Hackberry and Wild Cherry trees we had in our yard, birds and squirrels LOVED those. Perhaps like some other plants, Dogwoods evolved their fruit to be attractive to very specific creatures yet repellent or at least unpalatable to others in their original natural habitat (according to Bible lore, the Middle East) and those particular creatures just aren't present in the US.

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