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| Blue-coloured berries ID the Alternate Leaved Dogwood |
Just when you think you know a thing or two, something like this happens: I identify a tree, a shrub actually, that I never thought existed on our land. It's an Alternate-Leaved Dogwood.
There are a dozen or more of these 12-foot-tall, spindly shrubs that grow right on the edge of a ridge behind our house in Nolalu. I've been perplexed at what they were because they have the leaf shape of a dogwood but their flower umbrels never seemed to produce any berries. This year a few did and the berries are blue, not white like Redosier Dogwood. The plants are also twice the height of Redosier. Despite its name, I swear the leaves are opposite, not alternate. Anyway, the blue berries, and the size of the plants are clinchers. Redosier has white berries and is about half as tall.
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| Bolete |
Cork and I found some other interesting things to photograph on a recent walk. Our Red Maples had not only turned colour but also had lost about half their leaves. Mushrooms are nearing their season end.
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| Scarlet Hood Waxcap |
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| Red Maple |
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| Late Garter snake. Time to hibernate. |
2 comments:
Those berries look a lot like blueberries, even though I realize they're not. Just curious how they compare size-wise?
Yes, they are the size of blueberries. Good eye.
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