FLESHY BUSH FRUITS 



berries, Wintergreens, and Bunchberries offers 

 a feast to the hungry. 



Choke-Cherries hang in drooping racemes from 

 numberless bushes, and the Httle red apples of 

 the Hawthorn are everywhere. These fleshy 

 fruits, upon the whole, are either berries, pulpy 

 fruits with several seeds, or drupes, pulpy fruit 

 with a single stony pit, or little apples, called 

 pomes. Their colors vary among red, black, 

 purple, blue, and white. 



VARIED REDS 



Barberries, Berberis. — All species bright red. — The 



scarlet pennants which stream from the Barberry 



bushes. 

 Bittersweet, Celastris. — A climbing vine, the opening 



orange pods show the scarlet seeds. 

 Black Alder, Winterberry, Ilex. — Twigs loaded with 



red berries. The coral beads of the beautiful 



Black Alder. 

 Bunchberry, Cornus. — Abundant on the forest-floor. 



Brilliant shining red. 

 Choke-Cherries, Prumus. — Varied reds, very rarely 



yellow. Currant-like clusters. 

 Coral-Berry, Symphorocarpus. — Dark red. 



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