100 HOW TO KNOW WILD FRUITS 



WILD OR MOUNTAIN HOLLY 



Ilicioides mucronata. Nemopanthes fascicularis 

 Holly Family 



Fruit. — The pale crimson, nearly globular, 

 berrylike drupe grows from the leaf axil, on a 

 red stalk, an inch or more in length. The flesh 

 is yellowish and incloses four or five faintly 

 ribbed stony nutlets. September. 



Leaves. — The oblong deciduous leaves grow 

 on slender stems. They are entire or faintly 

 toothed and acute or bristle-tipped at the apex. 



Flowers. — The flowers are small, white, and 

 polygamo-dioecious. May, June. 



The long, threadlike peduncles are distinctive 

 features of this much-branched shrub. It has 

 an ash-gray bark. Its habitat is in damp woods 

 along the mountains in Virginia, and north- 

 wards. It is found west to Indiana and Wis- 

 consin. 



STRAWBERRY BUSH 

 Euonymus Americanus Staff-tree Painily 



Fruit. — The rough, warty, crimson capsule 

 opens its usually fiYQ pods and discloses the 



