RED OR REDDISH PURPLE 139 



CRANBERRY TREE. GUELDER ROSE 

 Viburnum Opulus Honeysuckle Family 



Fruit. — The beautiful globose drupes grow in 

 terminal cymes. They are bright red when ripe, 

 haying changed from green to greenish yellow 

 and yellowish red. The separate fruits are 

 about the size of Choke Cherries. At the tip 

 are traces of the calyx teeth. The fruits are 

 fleshy and inclose a flat stone with a thin crus- 

 taceous coat. The stone is without furrows or 

 grooves. The fruit is acid and a trifle bitter. 

 August, and persistent. 



Leaves. — The leaves are opposite. They are 

 strongly three-nerved and three-lobed. They are 

 sparingly toothed, being usually entire along the 

 margins of the sinuses. The developed leaves 

 are dark green above and paler beneath. Dull 

 red or purple are the autumn colors. 



Floivers. — The white flowers grow in a flat 

 cyme. The marginal ones are larger and neu- 

 tral, the central ones smaller and perfect. June, 

 July. 



This is an interesting and attractive shrub. 

 In the spring, it bears its showy white flower 



