Berry Finder: A guide to native plants with fleshy fruits (Nature Study Guides) - Softcover

Miller, Dorcas S.

 
9780912550312: Berry Finder: A guide to native plants with fleshy fruits (Nature Study Guides)

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Easily Identify the Berries You Find!

Enjoy learning how to identify berries with this guide from celebrated author Dorcas Miller. With this handy, easy-to-use book, you'll be able to identify a wide variety of berries in no time. And its small size makes it just right for fitting in a pocket or pack when you go for a hike.

Features:

  • Refers to all fleshy fruits as "berries," whether they are drupes, pomes, accessory fruits, aggregates, or true berries.
  • Includes native species as well as some cultivated species that have escaped to the wild
  • Helps you identify plants with fleshy fruit 1 inch in diameter or smaller, found in Eastern North America.
  • Describes ripe fruits, as most unripe fruits are green or white, and many turn several colors before maturing

Note that this is a plant identification book, not a guide to edible plants.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Dorcas S. Miller is the author of three other books in the Finders series: Track Finder, Constellation Finder, and Winter Weed Finder, as well as books on many topics, including kayaking, hiking, natural history, and outdoor cooking. She has been a registered Maine Guide, Outward Bound instructor, and whitewater guide. Cherie Hunter Day is also the author of Life on Intertidal Rocks in the Finders series.

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Opposite, entire leaves

from 6

20

If plant is:

  • an evergreen shrub, it is
    Partridgeberry
    Mitchella repens
  • a vine with twining stems, it is
    Climbing Honeysuckle
    Lonicera spp.
  • a parasitic, evergreen plant growing on a
    broad-leaved tree, it is Mistletoe, page
    30.

red berries

2/3

red, orange, or black berries 1/3

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ISBN 10:  0912550228 ISBN 13:  9780912550220
Verlag: Wilderness Pr, 2002
Softcover