What's that berry: 10 Red Fruits of Autumn—Test Your Knowledge
Photography by Marie Viljoen. The wild and tame red fruits of fall are botanical holiday decorations, in miniature. Winterberry is a deciduous holly, Ilex verticillata. Native to the central and eastern United States, winterberry glows with color through winter. Red chokeberry shines in late fall. Its smaller fruits make up for their size in intense color. Red chokeberries are usually very astringent until well into cold weather. Red chokeberry is native to the eastern US and is hardy from zones 4-9. A cluster of mountain ash fruits. Sorbus americana is a small native tree that grows in acidic soils and cooler climates (zones 3-6) in the eastern part of the US. Hawthorn fruits in winter More palatable than astringent crabapples the mild flavor of hawthorn fruit is improved by slow cooking with... ...spices to make a hot mulled drink or to preserve the fruit whole in the tradition of Mexican tejocotes C mexicana Like maraschino cherries on trees crabapples blaze in autumn They can be the basis of a surprisingly good apple... ...vinegar Substitute them for the apples in this Market Apple Fizz and then follow the dead simple vinegar method Christmas berry is a crabapple lookalike. Once designated Photinia, Christmas berry is now classified as Pourthiae villosa, a tree native to East Asia and naturalized in the eastern US, where it has become invasive. Rosehips may be petite, or juicy and fat: these belong to Rosa multiflora. Rosehips, with Virginia creeper, invasive privet, and bittersweet. (Bear in mind that birds will still eat the rosehips if they are outdoors.) Invasive barberries are one of the most difficult plants to control. The proliferation of barberry has also been associated with an uptick (pardon) in the tick population where the shrubs grow. Autumn olives can have bumper crops that bend their branches low. Autumn olives ripen from fall through the early months of winter. Linden viburnum is strikingly attractive.