Once the flowers have gone, small deeply purple berries form ... When ripe, these berries appear to be almost black in color.

The leaves are oval, smooth and have a small notch in the tip. The leaf margins are wavy and supple. Flowers occur in the summer in clusters and produce single-seeded black berries in the fall.

For cooks of all stripes, however, the abundant berries produced by the plants offer a tremendous ... glance — both composed of a cluster of small black drupelets to form the "berry" — it's ...