Along with maleberry, this wetland shrub is a relative and look-alike of highbush blueberry. Just like maleberry, it does not yield edible fruit. It lives up to its common name in spring, producing bell-shaped sweet-scented flowers in one-sided racemes. Cooks Pond, Plymouth, June 7

New flower buds preformed for the next year and ripening fruits of the current year. Mary Dunn Pond, Hyannis, October 31

Ripe fruit. Hockomock Swamp, Raynham, November 12

Breaking bud in spring. Massasoit Wildlife Refuge, Plymouth, May 11