One of the most confusing woody plants with showy fruits is the box elder, which is actually a maple.

Another feature of mature specimens is the showy fruit that resembles huge red raspberries.

The actual flowers are small and yellow and nearly invisible behind the showy fruits, which extend shiny bright white scales which look like long rectangular flower petals.

Landscape plants are often selected for the same characteristics (like rapid growth and lots of showy fruit, which attract birds) that facilitate invasions of wild lands.

The Linden viburnum, a species imported from Asia, has a double dividend at this time of year: first the foliage, which is a bronze color to match the late-coloring oak trees, and then the showy red fruit.

The plants are deciduous shrubs and noted for their showy ornamental edible fruit.

It blooms in Spring with white flowers that turn to showy red fruit.

The inflorescence is a dense spherical cluster of flowers that yield showy fruits with fan-like funnel-shaped papery bracts.

Skimmias are grown as garden plants for their foliage, flowers, and showy red fruits.

Another super viburnum that has double dividends - fall color and persistent showy fruits - is the aptly named American cranberry bush.