GREEN, GREENISH, OR YELLOWISH FRUIT 
GROUP n 
Fruit small. 
Squaw Huckleberry. Deerberry ( Vaccinium stamineum). 
Heath fainily. 
A finely hairy, widely spreading shrub, under three feet high, 
with pale egg-shaped or oval leaves. The fruit consists of round 
or pear-shaped, greenish or yellowish, few-seeded berries in 
raceme. Early autimm in dry woods and open ground. 
Dwarf Ginseng. Groundnut {Panax trijoUum). Ginseng 
family. 
A perennial herb with single stem several inches high rising 
from a deeply set, round tuber. There are three oblong leaves 
in a whorl below the fruit, each leaf divided into three to five 
leaflets, directly placed on the end of the leaf -stalk (palmate). 
Fruit yellow berries in an umbel at the top. The fruit of Panax 
quinque folium, q.v., the root of which is so highly prized by the 
Chinese, is a bright red. 
Climbing Bitter-sweet (Celastrus scandens). Staff-tree 
family. 
A twining shrub with egg-shaped to oblong alternate leaves, 
finely toothed, short-stalked. The vine is very hardy, grows 
over walls and in the woods, and lends itself well to cultivation. 
The fruit, ripening in early autumn, at first appears as a round, 
orange-colored berry; later it opens in three divisions which 
curl back so as to show the red covering of the seeds. The 
fruit persists. 
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