Receptacles. The things on the wine berry plants that I called husks in a previous post are correctly called receptacles.

I spent some time over the weekend with someone who knows all about plants and that’s what he called them. We were standing in wine berry brambles and I was wondering if the plants surrounded my bare legs and arms were poison ivy, when he mentioned he receptacles on the wine berry bush.

“What did you say?” I asked. “

"This part here, that held the wine berry, that’s the receptacle," he said in his long pants and long sleeves on a sweltering hot day.

I was excited to learn something I wanted to know, and I took out my notebook to jot down the word receptacle. Then I said, "This is poison ivy all around me, right?"

And he said, "Right."

The guy knows his plants. And he knows how to dress for them.

I have a lot to learn.