This section is from the book "Harper's Guide To Wild Flowers", by Caroline A. Creevey. Also available from Amazon: Harper's Guide To Wild Flowers.
Color, greenish purple. Leaves, opposite, sessile, thick, glossy green, 2 to 3 inches long, slightly hairy the veins underneath. Parts of the (lower in fives. The seeds surrounded by red pulp (an aril), are at 1 ached to a crimson, rough-warty pod.
A shrub, 2 to 5 feet in height, irregular, very striking when in fruit. I have found it in New Jersey along banks of streams and drier roadsides. New York southward and
Westward to Illinois.
 
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