How about a berry thread

[carole]

more berries:

black chokeberry (photinia melanocarpa), with blueberries in background


bunchberry, dogwood (cornus canadensis)


bristly sarsaparilla (aralia hispida)


red cherry aka pin or fire cherry (prunus pensylvanica)


juneberry aka early shadbush, serviceberry (amelanchier laevis)


skunk currant (ribes glandulosum)


solomon's seal berry (polygonatum biflorum)

 

[carole]

northern highbush blueberry (vaccinium corymbosum)


mountain holly (nemopanthus mucronatus)

 

[Mark Schaefer]

From the produce aisles on Bearpen and Roundtop Mountains in the Catskills

Thimbleberry (picked and placed inverted on thimbleberry leaves to illustrate the thimble shape):


Thimbleberry (picked and placed on thimbleberry leaves):


Thimbleberries:


Blackberries:


Mountain Ash berries:


Pin Cherries:

 

[elvios lincoln]

Cranberries On North Brother, Sept 4 2008

The Moutain Cranberry was everywhere. The berries I tried were not bitter at all. They were actually somewhat sweet.

 

[Kevin Judy and Emma]

Great Pictures!

I don't think I've ever seen Thimbleberry before. Cool!

Can anyone tell me what these are? They were growing on the ledges of South Baldface. Just plain, red berries.

KDT

 

[JohnL]

Red berries

Yellow berries

Blue and Red berries

All from Acadia NP. Not sure of their identities.

JohnL

 

[cbcbd]

I like this thread!
I'll have to take some pics, but so far this summer I have gorged myself on wild Himalayan Blackberries (everywhere!), Strawberries, Blueberries, Oregon grapes, Thimble berries, Huckleberries,Salmon berries, some other kind of low blackberry, red raspberries... and there are probably more too that I am forgetting.

 

[JohnL]

Partridgeberry

Two - photos of an unknown berry. Any ideas?

JohnL

 

[carole]

Two - photos of an unknown berry. Any ideas?

JohnL

Jack-in-the-pulpit

 

[arghman]

Red berries

nightshade (Solanum dulcamara)

Yellow berries

asiatic bittersweet (Celastrus orbiculatus -- invasive )

Blue and Red berries

??? Not sure of this one. Can you post a closeup crop? I can't seem to zoom in on the photo fullsize.

 

[arghman]

Can anyone tell me what these are? They were growing on the ledges of South Baldface. Just plain, red berries.

Mountain holly (Nemopanthus mucronata). I've been up on those ledges + one time made my one major edible plants mistake there: thought I saw a 5-parted calyx on the front of the berry + so concluded it was a juneberry. One quick taste proved otherwise...

 

[Kevin Judy and Emma]

Thanks!

Thanks, Jason, as you probably know I like to label things correctly on my website. I haven't found a good site to ID berries. Any suggestions?

KDT

 

[JohnL]

??? Not sure of this one. Can you post a closeup crop? I can't seem to zoom in on the photo fullsize.

Try this.

 

[carole]

Try this.

northern wild raisin, aka nanny berry (viburnum cassinoides)

 

[carole]

Can anyone tell me what these are? They were growing on the ledges of South Baldface. Just plain, red berries.

Scroll back for my close up picture of mountain holly.

 

[Kevin Judy and Emma]

Yup!

That's it! Thanks!

KDT

 

[ADKnBVI]

Thank you!

We've got multiple books to help us identify the flowers in spring, but none that help us with the berries in summer/fall. Thanks so much! I'm bookmarking this thread!

Valerie