koshergrl
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We have red huckleberries in a few spots..but there aren't enough for more than a few bites. We don't cook with them, they're just a summer treat.Growing up, the only berries that I knew as huckleberries were dark blue. If it was red, it wasn't a huckleberry, or maybe it was one that wasn't ripe yet.
now see, I had always thought they were only red & didn't know there was a blue variety. The red ones here start as more white turning pink, then red...with no further color changes
Those don't sound like anything I knew as a huckleberry. The only ones we had up in Montana were the dark blue ones.
Same here, only reversed.
Everything in the Eastern American hemisphere is reversed. Water goes down the sink the wrong way, they drive on the wrong side, and everybody's lefthanded.
Montana may be east from here, but not that far.....doofay
This is what we in the West call huckleberries and about 97% of the time they grow wild out of an old dead tree stump, usually cedar. The largest are about the size of a pea, so it would take quite a few to make anything from them. They usually ripen around the first week of July and are only good for a short time, 1 or 2 weeks, after that they just shrivel up & fall off the plant.
Vaccinium parvifolium - Wikipedia
There's our huckleberries.
We have elderberries too, but they're a lot more medicinal and many don't like elderberry jam.