Bunchberry

Bunchberry

Bunchberry Cornus canadensis grows in damp acid woodlands. What appears to be a single four-petalled flower is really a cluster of tiny, inconspicuous, greenish flowers surrounded by four large, white, modified leaves or bracts. Below the flowering head is a whorl of green leaves and below these are one or two pairs of much smaller leaves. Veins on the leaf have a distinctive pattern, curving towards the leaf tip.The fruits of Bunchberry appear as a cluster of red berries. [CH] {GW}