BERRIED TREES AND SHRUBS
Many variety of trees and shrub are deserving develop for the saki of their brightly non-white fruits , apart from any other decorative characteristic they may have . Not all the fruits borne by the pursue tree and shrubs are honest berries , but for the sake of commodious reference point these kinds are grouped together here .
Rockspray or Cotoneaster . Cotoneasters are in particular attractive . Some kinds , C. frigida , for example , grow into small Tree 30 foot . high gear or form declamatory , wide - overspread bushes . C. frigida itself is very beautiful when covered with its bunches of hopeful red fruits . There are many other attractive kind , of which C. Dielsiana , C. bullata , C. horizontalis , C. microphylla , C. salicifolia , and C. Simonsii , all with cherry-red berries , are very showy in fall . Birds take most of the Cotoneaster berry during early winter , but C. rotundifolia retains its scarlet fruits until spring .
The Firethorns . Pyracantha coccinea and its variety Lalandii are well - known evergreen shrubs which bear large clusters of orange - red yield during fall and wintertime . Several other kind of Pyracantha are found to fruit just as well , notably P. crenulata and its multifariousness P. Rogersiana and P. atalantioides . P. angustifolia , which bear orange - colored fruits , is not so hardy as the others .
The Wild Roses . The fruit of many of the Wild Roses are beautiful in fall . The hips or yield of the Japanese Rosa rugosa are apple - like in appearance , more than an inch in diameter and of sheeny red colour ; they can be used for lay down jelly . Another Rose with large fruits is R. Roxburghii ; its greenish - yellow fruits are fragrant and covered with spiny growth . Other Roses with attractive cherry-red fruits are : R. californica ; R. canina ; R. carolina ; R. Moyesii and var . Fargesii ; R. horrida ; R. involuta ; R. pendulina ; R. tomentosa , and R. virginiana .
Japanese Quince and Hawthorn . The dwarf Japanese Quince , Chaenomeles japonica , produces chickenhearted , apple - like fruits , over an inch wide , that can be made into jelly . Many of the Hawthorns are very showy when in fruit , notably the Cockspur Thorn , Crataegus Crus - galli , and the Washington Thorn , C. Phaenopryum , as well as C. coloradensis , and C. prunifolia . These all have red-faced fruits . C. Lavallei ( Carrierei ) stick out large orange - red fruits that last well into the winter .
haw with Yellow Fruits . C. tanacetifolia produce yellow fruit that are very fragrant and edible , C. chrysocarpa has golden fruits , C. Azarolus conduct sweet eatable yield that are red and yellowish when good . The fruit of C. punctata are cherry , recognise with brown , and those of the variety aurea are yellow .
The European Mountain Ash , Sorbus Aucuparia , is well known for its large clustering of coral - ruddy fruit , but there is a kind with yellow fruits . The American Mountain Ash , Sorbus americana , and more particularly its variety nana , are very attractive trees with bright - red fruits , and as beautiful is the ferny go away , pink - fruit S. Vilmorinii . The White Beam , Sorbus Aria , and several close allied tree bear abundant crop of red or orange - red fruit .
Ornamental Crabs . Someof the Crab Apples are very showy , particularly the flushed - fruited Malus prunifolia , and its yellow variety Rinkii , and the redor yellow - fruit M. baccata . The named varieties of Crab , e.g. , Hyslop , Hope , and Transcendent , have large colored yield which are favor for jelly making .
The Barberries . Many kind of Berberis are very beautiful in fruit , particularly the crimson - fruit B. Wilsonae and its varieties Stapfiana and subcaulialata , B. polyantha , B. chinensis , B. koreana , B. Thunbergii , B. rubrostilla , and numerous crossbreed .
The Spindle Trees . Several kind of Euonymus are attractive by ground of the highly colourise fruits , which part open and let out as brightly colored come . Good form are E. europaeus , the Spindle Tree of Europe ; E. sachalinensis , E. americanus , E. latifolius , E. oxyphyllus , E. atropurpureus , E. Bungeanus , and E. yedoensis . The out part of the fruit is in most typeface of a ruby chromaticity , the source being orange .
Bittersweet . Both the American Bittersweet , Celastrus scandens , and the Asiatic C. orbiculatus are vigorous climbing plants , closely allied to Euonymus ; the outer part of their fruit is yellowed and the seeds are orange .
Bush Honeysuckles and Hollies . Some of the bush Honeysuckles bear handsome fruit , one of the most attractive being Lonicera tatarica , with scarlet , semitransparent berries . Hollies are always attractive , the violent - berried variety being more showy than those with yellowed fruit . To get good crop of Holly berries it is necessary with most kind to embed one manlike bush among every six or eight berry - comportment or distaff bushes . The Hollies admit not only evergreen plant kind such as Ilex opaca , I.cornuta , I. Aquifolium , I.Cassine , and I. vomitoria , but also deciduous species , notablyI.laevigata and I. verticillata .
Magnolia and Snowberry . magnolia are often conspicuous by reason of the erect red fruits , especially M. obovata and M. tripetala . Viburnums also bring out showy Chuck Berry , notably V. Opulus , V. betulifolium , and V. lobophyllum , all of which have red fruit . Snowberries or Symphoricarpos acquit rotund white fruits , although one variety , S. orbiculatus , bears red ones .
Viburnums . Among this chemical group are included some of the hunky-dory of ornamental fruiting shrubs . Often the coloring of the fruit change markedly as maturity approach — for instance , in V. cassinoides , from green to red to black . V. dilatatum has scarlet fruit that remain long on the bushes . V. setigerum has great swag clustering of scarlet fruit . V. Opulus , V. trilobum and V. Wrightii are other good red - fruited kinds . The fruits of V. prunifolium , as they mature , first become crimson and then grim ; the fruits of V. Lentago , V. acerifolium and V. nudum are black ; those of V. dentatum and V. rufidulum are dismal ; those of V. dilatatum variety xanthocarpum and of V. Opulus salmagundi xanthocarpum are yellow .
Some Other Good Kinds . Berried tree and shrubs of worth are included in many other genera . Ardissia Chuck Berry are red or black ; Aronia berries are red or black ; Callicarpa includes a number of kinds that have bright purplish - colored berry ; genus Cornus let in kinds With red and kinds with yellow fruit ; Elaeagnus has berries that are predominantly silvery yellow or scarlet ; Hippophae berries are orange - discolour and remain attractive for a farsighted geological period ; Idesia bears huge bunch of orange - crimson or red-faced berry ; Taxus ( Yews ) includes evergreens that bear attractive red fruits ; Myrica is noteworthy for the waxen gray berries that are borne in cornucopia ; Nandina take over decorative panicle of vivid violent berry ; Rhamnus has black berries ; Skimmias are openhanded evergreens that bear red fruit ; Symplocos bear beautiful turquoise - blue berry .
