Keyed Out #051 — Arbutus unedo

Question 1

Its petals are fused into a small hanging urn pinched nearly shut at the mouth, and the pollen-bearing parts inside shed through a pore at the tip rather than splitting open lengthwise.

Accepted Answer

heath family

Question 2

Its leaves are simple, leathery and evergreen, set alternately, with no appendages at the base of the leaf stalk.

Accepted Answer

Ericaceae

Question 3

Its fruit is a many-seeded fleshy sphere ripening from a chamber that stood above the petals, its skin red and roughened all over with small blunt warts.

Accepted Answer

Arbutus

Question 4

It grows as a multi-stemmed small tree whose trunks shed cinnamon-red bark in thin flakes, carrying broad flat leaves set singly, not as a low creeping mat nor as a dwarf shrub of needle-like leaves in whorls.

Accepted Answer

Arbutus

Question 5

Its leathery evergreen blades carry clear teeth along the whole margin rather than running smooth and unbroken to the tip.

Accepted Answer

Arbutus unedo

Question 6

It opens its flowers in late autumn, and because the fruit takes a full year to ripen, open flowers and ripe fruit hang together on the same branch.

Accepted Answer

Arbutus unedo