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Plant ID... Huckleberry?
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mousegunguy
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Do they have 10 little seeds? Are they berries sweet?
I don't think there are any poisonous lookalikes to huckleberry around here.
I don't think there are any poisonous lookalikes to huckleberry around here.
The only toxic sort-of-similar berries in this area are the buckthorns. But that does not look like a buckthorn.
Buckthorn with little doubt. Poisonous! You can tell by the leaves. At least.... I think. Huckleberries are larger bushes at least all I had seen so far. You can find lots of them at Pitcher Mountain in NH a ways up the service road where people pick blueberries.
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Gah.... Now I am not so sure. They might be huckleberries. Buckthorn berries look like what you have there but the detail isn't enough. Quite a few berries resemble that from a distance. Including stuff like wild cherry or choke berries (but that is a tree so I'm sure it's not them)
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Will get a better pick tomorrow. They look pretty much exactly like blueberries but the leaves have a sheen to them and the fruit obviously isn't frosted like a blueberry. They are growing right along side blueberry bushes. I know there is a "shiny" blueberry but it's range isn't supposed to come this far north. I also know there is a "black" huckleberry which I thought this could be. Will get more pics and count seeds tomorrow. On a side note I have never seen so many blueberries before in my life. Sucks it's been so dry though cause they aren't very juicy.
Here's a pic I took last year of what should be huckleberries:
My front yard has quite a few blueberries. They are also mixed in with the buckthorn; I can't keep that stuff down... nearly every berry that falls results in a new sapling. Unfortunately, the turkeys have been eating my blueberries. Yes, turkeys. There's a family of 30 of them.
My front yard has quite a few blueberries. They are also mixed in with the buckthorn; I can't keep that stuff down... nearly every berry that falls results in a new sapling. Unfortunately, the turkeys have been eating my blueberries. Yes, turkeys. There's a family of 30 of them.
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After Googling Buckthorn it looks more tree like and more woody. Also these leaves are more long and pointed and the buckthorn looked more rounded/ pear shaped. These are more low bush wild blueberry sized. There are many of them and none ever larger than 2' high and I have been here 10 years. But will get better pics after work.
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Ya gonna get some pics later... I brush hogged a field Thurs that was 75% poison ivy well stuff went south and the lower seal on the motor blew out on me and in the process of investigating what happened I was crawling all over and under the mower before washing it off because I was so pissed off and never thought about all the oils being all over the mover. Luckily I was wearing boots, long pants, and a T shirt but I have still never had poison ivy this bad before.
Pretty sure you meant buckthorn. And they crowd out my blueberries. It is one nasty plant, near impossible to keep back if you have sunny areas that aren't mowed. Nearly every small black berry in this area of the world is buckthorn. (Most of the rest of the black berries I see are black cherry.... You can eat them although I haven't tried).
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Wait for wild cherries to be really ripe before eating any. Even then, raw they are astringent. I use them in combination with other berries to make jelly.
Yup, meant alder buckthorn, I don't have a ton of it but there is a bit around the yard. We have tons of black raspberries, a few blackberries and our blueberries do quite well.
We used to have an ancient apple tree that produced well some years but our neighbor tore it down but that's a story for another day.
Does anyone happen to know what this berry is? It is red, but not shiny, so its not something like a red (unripened) buckthorn or a winterberry. It looks like it was dusted with some white powder, sort of like how a blueberry looks. I saw them today at Sargent Camp in NH. Nearby were lots of blueberries, and a few black huckleberries.
Does anyone happen to know what this berry is? It is red, but not shiny, so its not something like a red (unripened) buckthorn or a winterberry. It looks like it was dusted with some white powder, sort of like how a blueberry looks. I saw them today at Sargent Camp in NH. Nearby were lots of blueberries, and a few black huckleberries.
I swear it looks like some type of wild cherry but I can't for the life of me find one that has a similar berry.
What about red chokeberry? Maybe not quite ripe yet?
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Well, now that you got me searching online for chokeberry images, I see they look disturbingly similar to huckleberries. So, now I have a new problem, how to properly recognize huckleberries again.
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I'm pretty sure they aren't what I pictured above though. What I saw is almost perfectly smooth except for a tiny dot opposite the stem. These chokeberry images have a much larger mark on the side opposite the stem.
