The tutor shares another field find.

Sunday, I took my sons (11 and 13) for a walk in the nearby woods. I had a couple of plants in mind to find, but found neither. However, I did identify a couple of other plants instead.

Standing in a very wet patch of forest through which a creek divides into many separate courses, I noticed a curved shrub with light-grey furrowed bark and black berries that were presented on red leaves. The other leaves weren’t red – just those behind the berries. The berries always appeared in twos.

At home, finding the shrub in the guide might have been the easiest look-up ever: it’s the black twinberry. The black twinberry is abundant on the west coast along streams, swamps, and marshes.

HTH:)

Source:

Pojar, Jim and Andy MacKinnon. Plants of Coastal British Columbia. Vancouver:
  BC Ministry of Forests and Lone Pine Publishing, 1994.

Jack of Oracle Tutoring by Jack and Diane, Campbell River, BC.