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Sumac
common dogwood
common dogwood
I wonder if you could be thinking of Oleander, an evergreen shrub with long leaves and clusters of flowers in shades from white through pink to red.
Black haw is a shrub or small tree with serrated oval leaves. Its white flowers and dark berries occur in clusters.
Smilax herbacea L. is most likely what you are looking at, or something within the same Smilax family. The berries hang from a single stem in a tight cluster resembling a dimpled golf ball. The berries begin as green clusters and ripen to a dark purple or black in the fall.
Could possibly be Callicarpa bodinieri (beauty berry)! Seven letters --E-T--
Bayberry is both a shrub and a tree. American bayberry grows 3-8 ft (1-2.4 m) high, foliage is evergreen, the small greenish-white waxy berries are in globular clusters at stem junctions.
The bright red berries are usually harvested in late summer or early autumn. The roots are usually harvested in the spring. Berries and roots can be used either fresh or dried.
Lonicera maackii
The black currant shrub is a deciduous with black berries of the Saxifragaceae family.
A deciduous tree or shrub growing to 5 - 10 ft (1.5 - 3 m), flowers are large, 3 - 5 in (8 13 cm) across, flat-topped clusters of white florets producing drooping clusters of bright red oval shiny berries.