Ripening fruit

September 1.

The fruit of the trilliums is very handsome. I found some a month ago, a singular red, angular-cased pulp, drooping, with the old anthers surrounding it three quarters of an inch in diameter; and now there is another kind, a dense crowded cluster of many ovoid berries turning from green to scarlet or bright brick color. 

Then there is the mottled fruit of the clustered Solomon's-seal, and also the greenish (with blue meat) fruit of the Convallaria multiflora dangling from the axils of the leaves.


H.D. Thoreau, Journal, September 1, 1851

The fruit of the trilliums is very handsome.. . .a dense crowded cluster of many ovoid berries turning from green to scarlet or bright brick color. See August 19, 1852("The trillium berries, six-sided, one inch in diameter, like varnished and stained cherry wood, glossy red, crystalline and ingrained, concealed under its green leaves in shady swamps.")