1. Ovary superior; fruit a capsule, surrounded by a fleshy
calyx; rhizomatous shrub to ca.
0.5 m tall; plants reddish hirsute almost
all over; corolla red ............... Gaultheria domingensis
1. Ovary inferior; fruit a true berry; scandent shrub,
lianoid, to 4 m tall; plants essentially
glabrous; corolla green ........................................................................ Vaccinium racemosum |