Bunchberry With Berries Postcard

Features a digital painting of Bunchberry with berries. Customize by adding your own text. The Bunchberry, Cornus canadensis, is a small, shade-loving, Dogwood herbaceous. They grow to only six or eight inches. They look like the miniature dogwood forest. The leaves are the same, the flowers are the same, everything; very much reduced in size. They develop tiny flowers at the center of the four white, petal-like bracts which is how an apparent single blossom can become a small "bunch" of berries instead of one big berry. The flowers have elastic petals that flip backward, releasing springy filaments that are cocked underneath the petals. The filaments snap upward flinging pollen out of containers hinged to the filaments. This motion takes place in less than half a millisecond and the pollen experiences 800 times the acceleration that the Space Shuttle did during liftoff. The Bunchberry has one of the fastest plant actions found so far requiring a camera capable of shooting 10,000 frames per second to catch the action. When I am in Idaho I munch on the fruits when in season; they taste a bit like apples. Birds are the primary means through which seeds are distributed. Bunchberry is an important borehole plant for mule deer, black tailed deer and moose, which consumes the growing season. Bunchberry needs cool, moist soils. It is native to northern China, far eastern Russia, Japan, and North America in montane and boreal coniferous forests, where it is found growing margins of moist woods, on old tree stumps, in mossy areas, and other open and moist habitats. Where bunchberry, a forest species, and Cornus suecica, a bog species, grow near each other in their overlapping ranges in Alaska, Labrador, and Greenland, they can hybridize by cross-pollination, producing plants with characteristics. Northwest aboriginal peoples preserved the berries in bear, they did with berries. In New England it was common to add a few bunchberries to plum pudding for the sake of the added color or because the amount of pectin in bundles causes pudding to set up without need of cornstarch, it known as puddingberry. Indian peoples used all spells of dogwoods, including bunchberry, to bandage wounds. Abneki Indians curassist in bunchberry powers, & called upon kilawinbizon which roughly "plant that bread in side," reflecting a persisting alternative-medicines claim that bunchberry can control bedwetting or in kidney ney ney. There are also modern herbalists who claim dogwoods can relieve symptoms of gum disease if bark is chewed or if dogwood twigs are used for cleaning between teeth. All of these alleged losses are debatable, but a mild astringent quality is sufficient to justify folk .