Mountain honeysuckle or border privet?
One lovely thing about autumn is that different species suddenly stand out. I had walked by this mountain honeysuckle (or is it border privet?) many times, surely. Perhaps it blended in with the eu...
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bittersweet fruit
Bittersweet affects Wadsworth less than some of the surrounding lands, but it has begun to establish a footprint, winding the weight of its vines around even the tallest of trees along one stretch ...
without the leaves...
On many linden tree branches, all that remains are the bracts and the berries.
silverberry (autumn olive)
This non-native species, which tends to crowd other species out wherever it gets a foothold, produces edible fruit that is sour but packed with nutrients. Notice tiny silver dots on the berries, an...
Bladdernut near Big Falls
I had to seek out an identification for this one: a three-sided podlike fruit, as green as the leaves, droops inconspicuously among the branches. The leaves are opposite and compound, with fine ser...
European buckthorn
There are two of these trees in the northwest strip of the park between the riven and Rte 157. The berries are smooth and almost black, the leaves have dogwood-like veins, and the branching pattern...
Fruiting linden (basswood)
This tree, abundant in the park, turns out to have quite a few uses as food! I missed the flowers, apparently; the young fruits are already showing along the stem that grows out of the bracts.