Here are five plants with thorns and spines to avoid in family gardens ... with evergreen foliage and red berries come fall. 'However, not only are these poisonous trees, containing toxic ...

often redder-than-normal stems with many times the normal number of thorns. Stems rapidly elongate and will be more succulent than normal. The intensely red leaves and shoots that are consistent ...

The sinewy, winding tangle of vines studded with thorns resembling sharks teeth ... summer or early autumn and ripen to a blue-black or red color, depending on the individual species.