pumpkin berry

Or as i call it timberberry. it's Latin name Geocaulon lividum

As i crawled over the forest floor to collect little pumpkins to decorate my pie for Thanksgiving. I was surprised to find so few. Yet the once i did find had transformed in perfect little pumkins, as oppossed to there more evenly rounder form in the summer.

comandra

Geocaulon lividum

Santalaceae sandelwood family

Northern Comandra

Timberberry

August 2012

everywhere in the forest around here in Mendenhal subdivision

lividum - ? lead color, pale

also called dogberry, it is edible, but not palatable

June 29, 2016. in the forest here in mendenhall subd. I often see affected plants.

The Geocaulon lividum is a parasitic species, living on the roots of kinnikinnick or asters, that seems possible, see  the kinnikinnick in the picture. Yet upon reading here on the Internet, it links the yellow veins to Pine blister. which needs two hosts to live. As there are no pines around here, this seems implausible to me.