mayapple

• May apple

From May +‎ apple. The fruit is notably neither related to apples (though "apple" itself has an archaic sense of generically referring to fruit), nor ripens during the month of May; only the flower blooms then around then in certain areas.

mayapple (plural mayapples)

1. A fruit-bearing flowering plant with poisonous roots, native to eastern North America, taxonomic name Podophyllum peltatum.
   • 2010, Siddhartha Mukherjee, The Emperor of All Maladies, Fourth Estate (2011), page 206:

     Etoposide came from the fruit of the poisonous mayapple.

2. The fruit of the plant Podophyllum peltatum.

• hog apple
• raccoon-berry

• mayapple rust