RED FRUIT 
Hobble-bush ( Viburnum alnijolium) . Honeysuckle 
family. 
A rather straggHng shrub with rusty twigs. The leaves, 
heart-shaped at the base, are abruptly pointed, finely and 
sharply toothed. Fruit coral-red, berry-like, in flat terminal 
clusters. The name is derived from the fact that when the 
branches descend to the ground, and take root, they are supposed 
to trip the unwary. Damp woods. 
Cranberry-tree ( Viburnum Opulus, var. americanum). 
Honeysuckle family. 
A shrub three to twelve feet high. The broad leaves have 
three spreading and pointed lobes. The berry -like fruit (drupe) 
is bright-red, globular, with a flat stone, in a terminal cluster. 
The skin of the fruit is very thin and delicate, like that of the 
currant, to which it bears more general resemblance than the 
fruits of the other viburnums. The leaf of the Cranberry-tree 
answers to the same description as that of the Maple-leaved 
Viburnum, but is easily distinguishable by its larger size and 
greater breadth in proportion to its length. The three lobes 
are toothed, the hollows between them untoothed. Woods and 
banks of streams. 
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