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

Miller, Dorcas S.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0912550317 ISBN 13: 9780912550312

Publisher: Wilderness Press, 2015

Synopsis

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.

About this title

About the Author

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

Edition details

• Publisher: Wilderness Press
• Publication date: 2015
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0912550317
• ISBN 13: 9780912550312
• Binding: Paperback
• Illustrator: Day Cherie Hunter
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 64