Apart from the already ripe or ripening perennial fruits of blue honeysuckle, goumi, and juneberry, followed by various cherries and goji (discussed and shown in the previous post), other fruits continue their development. Northcentral West Virginia, growing zone 6, elevation 1000 feet, east slope, photos below show the current unripe progress of peach, plum (Asian, European, & American), apple, Asian pear, medlar, crabapple, hawthorn, barberry, blackberry, blueberry, autumnberry, flying dragon orange, aronia, wild black cherry, wild grape, domestic grape, elderberry, persimmon, and pawpaw. Apricot and quince dropped blossoms, did not set fruit. Elderberry and persimmon both just now beginning to open blossoms.

A unique trait of elderberry is that it blooms in showy display long after and for a long while after all other fruit blossom displays are done. This also makes elderberry fruit impervious to any late frost. Elderberry is comparatively resilient too in partial shade and dry conditions. And it ranks very high on the ORAC (antioxidant) scale.