What kind of bush is this?

• Dec 3, 2016

• #1

Ugahunter2013

Senior Member

Has small purple/blue berries on it. Grows all in my planted pines.

 

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• Dec 3, 2016

• #2

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floridahillbilly

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I do believe that be a gallberry bush...

 

• Dec 3, 2016

• #3

Kawaliga

Gone but not forgotten

Looks like a wax myrtle to me. Mash the leaves up and smell them. If it is a wax myrtle, they will have a smell that reminds me of camphor.

 

• Dec 3, 2016

• #4

fishtail

Senior Member

Can't make out the picture but if the berries are about 1/8" probably wax myrtle. Berries about 3/16" probably gallberries.

 

• Dec 3, 2016

• #5

madsam

Senior Member

wax myrtle, a natural mosquito repellent. Rub the leaves and
smell them.

 

• Dec 3, 2016

• #6

Nicodemus

The Recluse

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It`s wax myrtle. Our swamps down here are full of it. Versatile bush, and a natural skeeter repellent. Old timers use the berries to make candles.

 

• Dec 4, 2016

• #7

Ugahunter2013

Senior Member

Nicodemus said:

It`s wax myrtle. Our swamps down here are full of it. Versatile bush, and a natural skeeter repellent. Old timers use the berries to make candles.

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Your 100% right. That was the first thing i noticed was how much like bug spray it smells. They have really spread through our mature heads of trees. Especially along the the road edges. I have tried cutting them down before, but they come back. Is there a time of the year or a way to cut them where they will not come back? Need to clear the road wqys and visibility from deer stands.

 

• Dec 4, 2016

• #8

Jake Allen

Senior Member

In Schley cty the bush is also known as Southern Bayberry.
Majic cover scent and it stays leafed year round.

 

• Dec 4, 2016

• #9

Ugahunter2013

Senior Member

Jake Allen said:

In Schley cty the bush is also known as Bayberry.
Majic cover scent and it stays leafed year round.

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How donyou like to use it? Crush up leaves and rub over clothes?

 

• Dec 5, 2016

• #10

chehawknapper

ABO

There are several wax myrtles. Southern bayberry is extremely common where I live. They can be male or female so, the don't all have berries. There is even an "odorless" wax myrtle.

 

• Dec 5, 2016

• #11

Jake Allen

Senior Member

Ugahunter2013 said:

How do you like to use it? Crush up leaves and rub over clothes?

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Yep, strip the leaves from a stem, crush 'em, and put some in my leafy suit jacket pocket.
Many times it grows around pines, and I climb the pine in the middle of the bush, and use the bush for cover.

 

• Dec 5, 2016

• #12

Silver Britches

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Jake Allen said:

Yep, strip the leaves from a stem, crush 'em, and put some in my leafy suit jacket pocket.
Many times it grows around pines, and I climb the pine in the middle of the bush, and use the bush for cover.

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Yep. I've also made a many a ground blinds with myrtle bushes. Good bush for creating some cover.

 

• Dec 7, 2016

• #13

georgiarebel6165

Senior Member

This guy pretty much covers every use for the wax myrtle edible and non

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1anJbXdZI4U&spfreload=1

and this lady shows making candles and noted above (neat stuff)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S0d7_tx34Do