red berries

Bright red berries. Glossy red berries that gleamed like a beacon in the shade. Berries that whispered “eat me” in a hue of red so vivid it promised death. I stopped and stared. That red. Into my mind, suddenly blank of everything except those berries, a word dropped like a pebble into a still pool: tantalizing.

6/21/14: This week on "The Plant Detective:" Even today, many elderly Chinese still prefer a good ginseng root to health insurance. American ginseng…