NOUN
- creeping perennial herb distinguished by red berries and clustered leaf whorls at the tips of shoots; Greenland to Alaska
How To Use bunchberry In A Sentence
- Tiny insects can trigger an explosive opening of mature bunchberry flowers; they are showered with pollen as they fly away to pollinate the next bunchberry plant.
- Tiny insects can trigger an explosive opening of mature bunchberry flowers, and are showered with pollen as they fly away.
- The rapid opening of the bunchberry is thought to enhance cross-pollination in two ways.
- The bunchberry dogwood plant is a low-growing perennial that is usually under eight inches tall.
- American dogwoods include the miner's dogwood, C. sessilis, whose fruits are sweet when fully ripe, and the less flavourful bunchberry, C. canadensis.
- Scientifically, bunchberry is Cornus canadensis while our other friend is Maianthemum canadense, both obviously very patriotic plants, growing right across the country.
- ‘Bunchberry stamens are designed like miniature medieval trebuchets - specialized catapults that maximize throwing distance by having the payload attached to the throwing arm by a hinge or flexible strap,’ Edwards said.
- In the fall, each bunchberry produces a cluster of bright red 1 / 4-inch berries at the end of the stem.
- As I worked in my yard, I would take any bunchberry growing where I did not want it, and place it where I did.
- There is a possible gradient effect occurring along transects running from the interior of buffer zones to the interior of harvest treatments on the reproductive biology of bunchberry located in conifer dominated forests.