Bursting-Heart (Euonymus americanus), Mt. Cuba, Hockenville, Delaware, early Autumn
A deciduous bush so modest and thin-boughed you miss it if you don’t know where it is hiding.
Verging on straggly, it is autumn when the couture-coloured fruit opens. Birds eat the seeds and deer the leaves. Not poisonous to Sapiens but a very strong laxative.
Native throughout the Piedmont of the Eastern US and in Texas and Ontario.
(The last photo found on the web and of unknown provenance).
