by Rich Leighton | May 18, 2021 | Food, Foraging, Fruits & Berries, Interesting Nature Facts, Natural History
Blackberries are one of the most delicious wild berries you can find on almost any continent and belong to the rose family, Rosaceae (notice all those thorns?). Did you know that what we call the blackberry isn’t actually a berry though? It’s technically an aggregate...
by Rich Leighton | May 14, 2019 | Florida Nature Photography, Fruits & Berries, Interesting Nature Facts, Natural History, Nature & Wildlife
Beautyberry fruit is very astringent, but can be made into a delicious wine or jelly. MORE PHOTOS OF BERRIES MORE INTERESTING NATURE FACTS Interesting Nature Facts is a series about the flora, fauna and places that make North America so amazing. Posts include nature...
by Rich Leighton | Mar 15, 2019 | Fruits & Berries, Interesting Nature Facts, Natural History, Nature & Wildlife
The salmonberry as we know it is actually an aggregate of drupelets – groups of small berries each containing a seed that form a single cluster from one flower – just like other bramble berries such as raspberries and blackberries. MORE PHOTOS OF BERRIES...
by Rich Leighton | Jan 29, 2019 | Fruits & Berries, Interesting Nature Facts, Natural History, Nature & Wildlife, Nature Photography
The huckleberry was one of the few plant species to survive on the slopes of Mount St. Helens when the volcano erupted in 1980, and still exists as a prominent mountain-slope bush today. MORE PHOTOS OF FRUITS AND BERRIES MORE INTERESTING NATURE FACTS Interesting...
by Rich Leighton | Sep 1, 2018 | Food, Foraging, Fruits & Berries, Interesting Nature Facts, Nature & Wildlife, Pacific Northwest
The raspberry-like thimbleberry is one of those common members of the rose family that has been used for untold centuries by the Native American tribes. Not only are the berries (usually) sweet and full of Vitamin C, the fresh shoots can be eaten fresh and leaves can...
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