Cornus canadensis
The fruits are edible with a mild flavour somewhat like apples. The large seeds within are somewhat hard and crunchy. Birds are the main dispersal agents of the seeds, consuming the fruit during their fall migration. In Alaska, bunchberry is an important forage plant for mule deer, black-tailed deer and moose, which consume it throughout the growing season. Hanley, Thomas A. 'et al' 1987. Forest stand-age related differences in apparent nutritional quality of forage for deer in southeastern Alaska. Proceedings of the symposium on plant-herbivore interactions'.