WHITE OR WHITISH FRUIT 
Plants with opposite leaves = Group I. 
Plants with alternate leaves = Group IT. 
GROUP I 
Leaves opposite. 
Red-osier Dogwood {Corniis stolonijera). Dogwood 
family. 
A rather tall branching shrub with reddish twigs. The leaves 
are opposite, egg-shaped, not toothed, sharp-pointed, somewhat 
white beneath, with slender stalks. Fruit white berries in flat 
tenninal clusters. 
Panicled Dogwood {Cornus paniciilata) . Dogwood family. 
A rather tall branching shrub. The leaves are short, broadly 
egg-shaped or lance-shaped, not toothed, tapering to a point. 
Fruit white berries in rounded terminal clusters. Late summer. 
Snowberry (Symphoricarpos racemosus). Honeysuckle 
family. 
A shrub one to three feet high, with round to oblong leaves, 
without teeth. White berries in close clusters. An escape from 
gardens. Summer to early autumn. 
GROUP II 
Leaves alternate. 
Creeping Snowberry ( Chiogcnes hispidula) . Heath 
family. 
A small trailer with little, rounded, evergreen leaves on short 
stalks. Fruit white berries, solitary in the axils. Late summer. 
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