the wild berry Duchesnea indica has been in my yard for a number of years...when and exactly how it arrived i haven't a clue ( birds? ) it produces exquisitely complex yellow flowers that begin appearing in mid-april...when the flower is pollinated it loses its petals and begins to form a berry from what was the center of the flower...i have been sending photos of the blooms to a close friend ( whose favorite color is....yellow ) and, as the berries develop, have been taking daily photos...she suggested that it would be fun to blog the metamorphosis from bloom to berry and so we find ourselves here...i will attempt to photograph the same berry every day and will also choose a new blossom to track to get the full impact ( there are no guarantees the current candidate will remain intact )...the photos here are from the eighteenth of april to today and i foresee this as a blog for this season...since the plants ( which have colonized areas of my yard by creating daughter plants with stolons just like domesticated strawberries ) were blooming into october last year it should be a good and instructive insight into some plant morphology over the course of a few months...stay tuned...they will be turning red soon enough.
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