Anne Elliott's photos with the keyword: Disporum trachycarpum

I always love to see the brilliant orange or red berries that the Fairybells plant produces. They have a rough textured surface, like velvet. The leaves are very pretty in fall.

The velvety berries of the Rough-fruited Fairybells plant are dotting the forest with bright red at the moment. These were growing on Erik Butters' ranchland, north west of Calgary, three days ago. "Fairybells produce velvety red berries 8-10 mm in diameter usually in groups of two or three. As the berries ripen, their colour varies from green, to yellow, orange and finally a bright red colour. They may also display a slightly warted appearance on the surface. They are edible, but mealy and tasteless - better to leave them for the grouse and rodents that find them tasty." From www.mountainnature.com .

The autumn leaves and the velvety fruit of the Fairybells wildflower are so bright and colourful in the forest. The fruit can be green, turning yellow, to orange or red, and they are pretty in all these colours, each one being about 1 cm across. Fairybells is a native plant, belonging to the Lily family, and grows in moist deciduous and mixedwood forests.

These dainty, little, native wildflowers belonging to the Lily family grow in moist deciduous and mixedwood forests. The bell-shaped flowers are greenish yellow and 1-2 cm long. These plants produce velvety, deep red berries.

We saw this wildflower, Fairybells, during our walk deep in the forest in Brown-Lowery Provincial park yesterday. Although we have seen Fairybells many times before, these particular flowers look slightly different. Maybe we will find out why : )?