Farkleberry?

Do you really need to be told not to eat berries that you do not have an ID for?

What makes you think I ate them? I said they had a mild flavor. I did not eat them.

Farkleberries usually fruit in the spring and the fruit is tough and bitter, these were soft and mild, not sweet or bitter and was fruiting in October.

Some of our Arkansas Vaccinium arobreum (Farkleberry) still have fruit, but Vaccinium species are many-seeded. The bark is also wrong for V. arboreum. Does Gaylussacia seem like an option? Plants of that genus have fruits with (typically) 10 seeds, and leaves that are glandular-punctate on the lower surface (except G. brachycera). If Gaylussacia, then consider dumosa, nana, or tomentosa for your area.

https://www.fs.fed.us/database/feis/plants/shrub/vacarb/all.html

Says Vaccinium arboreum has 8-10 seeds with fruit that stay on the tree well into winter months and that they can have slinder, rigid twigs that are reddish brown.

"I said they had a mild flavor. I did not eat them."

There are some plants that simply tasting them could make you quite ill.

Very few and most of those are herbaceous not a shrub. Most plant toxin have to be digested to be harmful, mushroom proteins are too large to be absorbed orally, and mucus membranes protects from us from oral cavity poison ivy. The point is you choose to be a Holy Rectalite rather than be helpful. Thanks for nothing.

Charming!