BLACK, BLUE AND PURPLE FRUIT 
GROUP I 
Trailing and Climbing Plants 
Carrion-flower {Smilax herhacea). Lily family. 
A climbing vine with smooth stem and leaves somewhat heart- 
shaped, blunt-pointed. Fruit black berries with bloom, round 
and flat in close, round clusters on long stalks. Late summer. 
Greenbrier. Horsebrier {Smilax rotundifoUa) . Lily 
family. 
A troublesome vine forming sometimes an almost impene- 
trable tangle. Stem yellow-green with prickles; branches more 
or less four-sided. Leaves pointed, their bases round or heart- 
shaped, generally not toothed. Fruit round, black berries in 
umbels on flat stalks from axils. Early autumn. 
Glaucous-leaved Greenbrier (Smilax glauca). Lily 
family. 
Sometimes with prickles; leaves oval, white underneath. 
Fruit as above. Early autumn. 
Moonseed {Menispermmn canadense). Moonseed family. 
A climber having broad leaves with three to seven angles or 
lobes. The delicate leaf-stalk is attached to the under surface 
of the leaf. The fruit (drupe) is berry-like, black, with a bloom, 
in loose cluster. Early autumn. 
Woodbine. Virginia Creeper. (Psedera quinquefolia) . 
Vine family. 
A common vine climbing by tendrils. Leaves of five leaflets 
palmately arranged. Fruit a small, generally blue berry, 
loosely clustered, on stiffly branching stalks. Autumn. Generic 
name supposedly a contraction for Greek false and ivy (Gray). 
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