[Sca-cooks] bay berries

[lilinah at earthlink.net]

Marian wrote:
>Actually, bayberries are a native American plant, with a waxy
>covering to the berry from which bayberry candles are made.  It
>is not related to the laurel.

Actually, bay trees do produce berries. Bay berries, aka laurel 
berries, are not the same as bayberries from the New World plant.

Anahita
who now has a source for barberries (berberis), but that's something 
else again...