BLACK, BLUE AND PURPLE FRUIT 
Poke. Gaiget (Phytolacca decandra). Pokeweed family. 
A tall, stout, spreading herb with conspicuously red or purple 
stem. The leaves are large, sometimes a foot long, pointed. 
Fruit dark-purple flattened berries in long racemes, terminal or 
opposite the leaves. Common in waste places. Early autumn. 
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Shrubs with opposite leaves. 
Maple-leaved Viburnum. Dockmackie ( Viburnum 
aceriJoUum) . Honeysuckle family. 
A branching shrub, several feet high, with straggling growth. 
The leaves somewhat resemble those of the Red Maple, having 
three pointed lobes, irregularly toothed. Fruit almost black, 
berry-like (drupe) in fiat clusters at the end of the branches, 
oval, slightly flattened, with thin pulp. The stone is rounded 
with two shallow grooves on one side. Late summer. 
Arrow-wood ( Viburnum dentatum) . Honeysuckle family. 
A rather tall shrub with pointed, egg-shaped leaves, somewhat 
heart-shaped at the base and coarsely toothed. Fruit small 
(drupe), dark-blue, in flat terminal clusters. Late summer. 
Withe-rod ( Viburnum cassinoides) . Honeysuckle family. 
A rather tall shrub with oval leaves either without teeth or 
with fine rounded teeth. Fruit berry-like (drupe) in terminal 
clusters, round or ovoid, dark-blue or blackish (at first pink), 
different colors in same cluster. Late summer. 
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