Plant A Day Oriental Bittersweet Naturally Speaking
American bittersweet has orangered berries, is a medicinal and has a bittersweet taste So, with syllogistic logic, early colonists named this new bittersweetlike plant the "false bittersweet" The berries are also toxic, ingestion resulting in relatively severe though not fatal digestive convulsionsAmerican bittersweet vines can girdle and kill live plants used for support, but the native species rarely presents a problem because of its relative lack of abundance Oriental bittersweet, however, is displacing the native species where they have begun to occur together, and there is some indication that they are hybridizing
