. How to know wild fruits; a guide to plants when not in flower by means of fruit and leaf. axil of the leaf. Thefruit in ripening changes from green to red todark purple. July. Leaves. — The leaves are variable in shape butare usually heart-ovate. On young shoots theyare often lobed. The margins are coarselytoothed. The upper surface is shining and maybe smooth or rough. The lower surface islighter. Yellow is the autumnal color. Flowers. — A tree sometimes bears both stami-nate and pistillate clusters of flowers, and some-times but one kind. A few pistillate flowersare occasionally found in t
. How to know wild fruits; a guide to plants when not in flower by means of fruit and leaf. axil of the leaf. Thefruit in ripening changes from green to red todark purple. July. Leaves. — The leaves are variable in shape butare usually heart-ovate. On young shoots theyare often lobed. The margins are coarselytoothed. The upper surface is shining and maybe smooth or rough. The lower surface islighter. Yellow is the autumnal color. Flowers. — A tree sometimes bears both stami-nate and pistillate clusters of flowers, and some-times but one kind. A few pistillate flowersare occasionally found in the staminate flowerspikes. The Red Mulberry is the only species nativeto America. The tree does not usually attain agreat size, but sometimes reaches a height offrom sixty to seventy feet. The finest trees areto be found along the lower Ohio and the Missis-sippi rivers. They range from Massachusetts toFlorida and west to Kansas and Nebraska. Theleaves do not serve successfully as food for silk-worms. These flourish best on the White Mul-berry leaves. An interesting feature occurs in. Red Mulberry {Morus rubra) 175 176 now TO KNOW WILD fhuits connection with the pollination of the the precise time that the anthers are readyto open, the filaments uncoil like a spring andthrow the pollen upon the breezes. POKE. SCORE. GARGET. PIGEON BERRYPhytolacca decendra Pokeweed Family Fruit. — The dark purple berries grow in longlateral racemes opposite the leaves. The berriesare like a sphere flattened vertically and arefrom five- to twelve-celled. Each cell containsone vertical seed. The berry is filled with acrimson* juice. The calyx persists at the Leaves. — The large coarse, leaves are oftenveined with purple. Floivers. — The five sepals are white or pink-ish and surround the conspicuous green corolla is lacking. This is a large rank perennial. The largeroots are poisonous but the young plants arecooked in early summer for Greens, and arecon
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