The Thanksgiving holiday week seems to be made for encountering winterberry holly. Walking off a full meal at some relative’s house often leads us to walking a country lane, alongside some drab wetland we would not be usually viewing otherwise.

Suddenly, the hot, mercurochrome-red, brilliant fruits of the common winterberry come into our vision. The plant’s leaves are now off its ashen-gray stems, and the scarlet red fruits are in full display out across the swampy terrain. This effect causes them to be very conspicuous in the autumn, when the surrounding vegetation is leafless.

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