Subject: [Tweeters] Yes, Pt. Defiance Berries were Evergreen Huckleberries
Date: Sep 21 16:12:04 2005
From: Mark Vernon - ma_vern at yahoo.com


Thanks to everyone who responded!!!

I looked up the berries and they were indeed Evergreen Huckleberries...one source called them Blueberries, Vaccinium ovatum. For one thing they are the most common berry out right now at Pt. Defiance, and were all over the place, especially thick in the middle area. The plants were quite tall in some places. The leaves are what threw me off, they are waxy in appearance. The berries do resemble huckleberries, but look a lot different than the Black Huckleberries that I pick in the Cascades. The birds were eating them on the west side of the park, right above the bluffs, where the trail sometimes hangs over the edge.

The other berries I noticed were orange colored Honeysuckle berries, Bittersweet (a red colored nightshade), some Oregon Grape and Salal. I would like to find the dark colored nightshades just to see what they look like.

The berries had a very good flavor. They are exotic to me because I have never seen any in the Seattle area.

-Mark Vernon



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