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Please ID! Tree with round black berries

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Wild Black Berry
by: Anonymous

Don't know for sure, but look at the trunk. It looks like a Wild Black Cherry Tree, but I can't be for sure without seeing the trunk. I have one in my yard in Florida. I make homemade wine out if it...
This is for Judy...
by: Pam

Judy, we have the same description - and it is the privet. Anonymous, I think we may not all be describing the same tree, because mine do not have fall-color foliage. I wish, tho!
The Volunteer trees with blue berries on them...
by: Pam

OK, everybody - I have the answer! I went to the nursery with a sample of the foliage with berries and here is what I was immediately told: The tree is called a privet. Birds eat the berries, then poop out the seeds, which germinate and grow more trees. If you don't get them while they are very small, they quickly develop a very strong tap root which makes them impossible to pull out. The only way to get rid of them is to cut them back and apply full strength Roundup to the cut. They make sprout more side leaves, so you have to cut it back again and reapply the Roundup, gradually exhausting the tap root. I haven't taken the time for that project yet, but I am SO relieved to have an explanation for all of these little trees growing under my 40-yr old plum tree!
I also have one
by: Judy

Mine have long pointy leaves that are smooth and the berries have one seed in the middle and start out as red berries and turns black. Is this the same as yours?
Look at the picture and read the description!
by: Pam

Sofia, your tree is none of the suggestions above - if you look those up, the leaves aren't right on any of them (and black tupelo is native to Ohio)and also the berries on the Rhamnus are too big. I am in Concord CA and I have it (THEM!) too - they have come up under my 40-yr old Santa Rosa plum tree in the last few years. Driving me crazy - I don't know how to get them out. I'll let you know if I discover what they are!
Same Berry
by: MrsChez

I have a tree that has the same berries...but the leaves are totally different. they are more round and not pointed. My poor little dog has been sick twice in the last few months whereas he had never had health issues before moving to this house. i thought i was mushrooms because there are several different species in our front yard, but he has not been in the front yard for a few days, after looking, i cant find any mushrooms in the back yard, but i found that these little berries have started to fall, i wanted to make sure this is not why he is ill. any ideas on type of berry or tree yet?
Tree with roung black berries
by: Anonymous

This is a hackberry tree.
Careful
by: Anonymous

look up nightshade. It is poisonous!
I Got It!!!!
by: Anonymous

Its a Rhamnus californica Coffeeberry native to cali !Hope this helps you!
I wish I knew as well
by: Anonymous

We have about 30 of them in our back yard there younger too!WE also live in ca...northern maybe that will help?
We have the same tree!
by: AB

Ours is young and just developed these berries this year, and we have no clue what it is! If I find other information I will post here.
Possibility
by: Anonymous

Not sure, but look up Black Tupelo

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