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Mother Nature knows that travelers on the Lynn Valley Trail can work up quite an appetite. To compensate for this she has provided a wide variety of wild berries for you to feast on. If you have been looking you may have noticed, wild raspberries, blackberries, elderberries, mulberries, strawberries, as well as crabapples and vines of grapes. Amongst these pleasant berries you may also spot honey suckles. These are small red berries that are found three or four to a stem. Although these berries are not poisonous, they are very bitter tasting .

Do not get honeysuckle confused with bane berries which are red berries found in clusters of twenty or more. These are the most poisonous berries in the area and should not be eaten. In contrast to bane berries, the clusters of white berries that you will find hanging on the red dogwood trees were once used by local natives for medicinal purposes and are not poisonous.

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