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Mount Desert Island, Maine: Carnegie Science Arboretum: Bates College: Lewiston: Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens: Boothbay: Ecotat Gardens and Arboretum: Hermon: Fay Hyland Botanical Plantation: University of Maine: Orono: Harvey Butler Memorial Rhododendron Sanctuary: Springvale: Lyle E. Littlefield Ornamentals Trial Garden: University of ...
Poisonous berries. In autumn, the lower ring of (female) flowers forms a cluster of bright red, berries up to 5 cm long [5] which remain after the spathe and other leaves have withered away. These attractive red to orange berries are extremely poisonous. The root-tuber may be very big and is used to store starch. In mature specimens, the tuber ...
Arbutus are small trees or shrubs with red flaking bark and edible red berries. [6] Fruit development is delayed for about five months after pollination, so that flowers appear while the previous year's fruit are ripening. [6] Peak flowering for the genus is in April with peak fruiting in October. [7]
Chinese pine; Chinese red pine Pinaceae (pine family) Pinus taeda: loblolly pine Pinaceae (pine family) Pinus taiwanensis: Taiwan red pine Pinaceae (pine family) Pinus tecunumanii: Tecun Uman's pine Pinaceae (pine family) Pinus teocote: Aztec pine Pinaceae (pine family) Pinus thunbergii: Japanese black pine Pinaceae (pine family) Pinus ...
The fruit is red and 6–9 mm (0.24–0.35 in) across. [4] It is an epigynous berry , with the majority of the flesh of the fruit being composed of the fleshy calyx. The plant is a calcifuge , favoring acidic soil, in pine or hardwood forests, although it generally produces fruit only in sunnier areas. [ 5 ]
The yellow flowers grow in showy clusters which appear in early spring, before the leaves begin to grow. The flowers have 6 sepals and a very sweet odor. [ 2 ] The ripe fruit is a red, ellipsoidal, berrylike drupe , rich in lipids, about 1 cm ( 1 ⁄ 2 in) long and is eaten by several bird species. [ 11 ]
Partridge berry (Mitchella repens) Foliage, inflorescence, and unopened blossom Berries. The ovaries of the twin flowers fuse together, so that there are two flowers for each berry. The two bright red spots on each berry are vestiges of this process. The fruit ripens between July and October, and may persist through the winter.
Rubus parviflorus is a dense shrub up to 2.5 meters (8 feet) tall with canes no more than 1.5 centimeters (1 ⁄ 2 inch) in diameter, often growing in large clumps which spread through the plant's underground rhizome.