No i wont win awards for photgraphy! are they edible? they are 5 ft off the ground and the deer have not found them yet, so maybe they know something! thanks all
These are Salmon Berries In spring they have pretty pink blossoms We leave the berries for the wild birds to feed their young families I don’t know why a human would pick them (other than for traditional First Ntn purposes) - raspberries and blueberries etc are far tastier in our opinion You may also be observing some thimbleberry ripening soon on wild roadsides E-Flora BC Mobile Photo Gallery
Deer in my area (Island County, Washington State) ARE quite interested in the tender new foliage of various Rubus including salmonberry (and Himalayan blackberry, which is a useful preference for them to have in a gardened setting - or anywhere else a body does not want to be buried by blackberries).
Hello RonB - do you have info why some salmon berries (fruit) are orange yet some are red I have not dived in to the roadside brush to figure out if one plant had orange ... and another plant had red fruit I do know the 2 colors can be in close proximity based on citizen science observation on our back lane.
It's not known yet what the adaptive advantages there are to having orange- and red-fruited morphs. Orange-fruited morphs seem to germinate more readily. Red-fruited morphs seem to be more preferred by frugivorous birds. As you go further north, the ratio of orange-fruited to red-fruited morphs increases (and of course the inverse as you go further south, with populations being primarily red-fruited at the southern part of the range).
