One advantage of botanizing the same place over and over again is that you get to know what grows where. You remember a plant that draws attention in the spring, forget it in the summer when it’s boring, then notice it again in fall. Because it’s in the same location, you know what it is.
The identity of this dangling blue fruit was a puzzle until I remembered that it’s hanging from the fringetree that put on a floral show in May.
Each flower can become a blue fruit.
(photos by Kate St. John)
Must be a male nearby. My tree is 3/4 full of berries on the female side while most of the male side died the past
2 year but enough to make fruit. Catbirds took care of the all fruit.