Wild jasmine
Chrysojasminum fruticans
Family · Oleaceae · Poisonous
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The Peninsula's wild jasmine, a shrub with green four-angled stems, star-shaped yellow flowers and glossy black berries. It has little scent, unlike garden jasmine.
Scrubland · Oak woods · Uplands · Walls and rocks
Also known asyellow jasmine, shrubby jasmine
How to tell it
Green stems all year, with four distinct ridges, very flexible. Alternate leaves divided into three small glossy leaflets, sometimes simple. Yellow flowers with five petals opening in a star, on a short tube. Round glossy black berries in autumn.
What it is confused with
No dangerous lookalikes known in the Iberian Peninsula.
What it is for
None. The black berries are toxic and look far too much like good fruit to the untrained. The flexible stems were used in rough basketry.