I was up a logging road on the Sunshine Coast b.c.. I was picking some black raspberries and I came by this plant and it had fruit on it. To me it looks like a fig when I cut it open. Sweet to taste. Anyone know what it might be?
I had troubles uploading pics as it screwed up my iPad. But I figured it out the fruit was a gummy gooseberry (Ribes lobbii)
Yeah it was sticky haired. But tasted sweet when I licked it. From reading more online I doesn't seem edible.
That definitely looks like the plant. Kind of a neat find, occurrence is sporadic and the flowers are striking.
The book 'Food Plants of Coastal First Peoples' lists them as "generally unpalatable but eaten by the Kwakwaka'wakw and Vancouver Island Salish, but only in small quantities".
