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-dicecious. 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 Family 



Fruit. The rough, warty, crimson capsule 

 opens its usually five pods and discloses the 



