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