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Plant ID... Huckleberry?
- Thread starter Brian5582
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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.
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.
I've been investigating berries due to this thread, I can't for the life of me get a positive ID on most of them. I have ID'd the ones in my yard as alder buckthorn, then I came across some at my in-laws place today that I swear were chokecherries, I tenderly tried one and it tasted like utter ass so I figure it wasn't chokecherry and was likely poisonous so I let that one slide.
I wish the good ones were a bit easier to tell apart from the bad ones.
It is quite a challenge. Not that it matters too much, but I didn't realize there was an "alder" buckthorn in the area. The two I knew about are glossy buckthorn and common buckthorn. Glossy, as you can imagine, is glossy. The good news is I am confident I can positively identify if something is some kind of buckthorn, so at least I won't be accidentally eating that.
I'm also confident when I see black cherry... I grew up with a big black cherry in front of the house that we used to play on. And, a few houses down the street from me I'm pretty sure there's a chokecherry. It is tricky to notice, and surrounded by buckthorn and even some elderberry.
But... huckleberries, chokeberries, service berries, and who knows what else... these leave me scratching my head. And I've been doing more looking online and the things I thought were huckleberry now look more like chokeberries to me. So, if that's the case, good news I've identified chokeberries. I'm not eager to try to eat those though.
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.![[laugh]](/xen/styles/default/xenforo/smilies.vb/012.gif "Laugh [laugh]")
Quickest way is to take a taste - huckleberries=good, chokeberries=suck.
