2015 September 2: Last spring when I went to our Botanical Garden's annual plant sale, I bought a couple of beautyberry plants: one with purple berries and one with white berries. I had especially wanted this plant because I had heard that in autumn a nice variety of birds are drawn to its bright berries ...evidently birds find them quite tasty.
While walking through my yard today, I noticed that the blooms had indeed closed up into beautifully bright purple berries.