Climate Change in New Hampshire: Living by Beatitude Pond

Observations of the climate and nature in the uplands and wetlands of our own backyard in rural New Hampshire.

Thursday, August 23, 2007

Fruitful plants


Our town has just completed a natural resource inventory. Every time my husband and I are out and about walking on the property we discover a new plant. Now many of the plants that flowered earlier in the spring are now bearing fruits (not edible to humans) of various sizes, shapes and colors. Ah! I wish I had my Uncle Paul’s botany skills. Uncle Paul was a botanist in Zug, Switzerland. I met him when I was eighteen and an au paire for the summer. He showed me pages and pages of his notebooks filled with pressed plants and notations. As I child I used to excel at memorizing the names of things, but now with a fuzzier memory it can be a struggle.
On our evening walk the other day I spotted this plant with white fruits that look like yogurt covered raisins.

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