identifying salmonberries

Discussion in 'Plants: Identification' started by Thrillhouse, Jun 5, 2007.

  1. Thrillhouse

    Thrillhouse Member

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    Hi,

    For years now I've been eating a very common berry which I'd always thought was a salmonberry. However, I went on a hike up to Squamish the other day, and one of my friends began to gnaw on an unripe version of what he said was a salmonberry, identical to the ones shown in this wikipedia article:

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salmonberry


    Are those salmonberries there? If so, how do I identify them from similar plants which have hair-like barbs along their stems?

    Also, what is the berry I've been eating? They're found all around the Pacific Northwest, and have a large, flat, drab, slightly-fuzzy leaf in a roughly maple-leaf shape, boast white-and-yellow flowers in the spring, and have berries very similar to raspberries which mush easily into a deep-red colour and taste quite tart. As a final note, I'll say that these berries are drab in colour like raspberries, rather than shiny like strawberries.

    Any ideas??
     
  2. Daniel Mosquin

    Daniel Mosquin Paragon of Plants UBC Botanical Garden Forums Administrator Forums Moderator 10 Years

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    Sounds like [WIKI]thimbleberry[/WIKI] (which some people also call salmonberry) - such is the problem with common names.
     

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