In a journal article some time back, biologists postulated a coevolutionary
relationship between fruit-bearing plants in the rosaceae family and birds. The
fruit, particularly berries, of different rosaceae species become “mellow’d” at
different times of year.This allows birds to find fruit
I recently encountered a line from Walt Whitman, in which he describes
"frost-mellow'd berries." I'm wondering if cold has this effect on creeper
berries. The vines around Centennial and Denver are laden this year. And
yet many of the berries have hung around, untouched until this week. Twice
