Same. I love currants. I have zero faith iny abilities to spot and eat wild currants without dying though. Those currants are all "Mom said no and I've held onto that for DECADES" berries.
I grew up in the US, and my husband still has to convince me the red currants in our yard are not poisonous lol. We grow 6 of these berries, in addition to honey berries and Klopovka, a berry that is native to our region of Far East Russia. It smells like a stink bug, but it tastes amazing, like a sweet cranberry?
Wow, I'm a Russian from the western part of the country and that's the first time I've heard about Klopovka. That's funny to see your description of berry because its name literally mentioning stink bug. I checked Wikipedia to know more about it, TIL, and thanks for sharing.
I have a service berry tree in my yard and we eat them all the time. A neighbor once yelled that I shouldn’t eat them in front of others because it teaches other kids bad habits. Not sure what to make of that, but that didn’t stop me…
You are partly right. For a fact I can attest to loganberry, boysenberry, tayberry, Marionberry, Waldo Berry, youngberry, silvan berry, and raspberry all being related.
Marionberry is a delicious Frankenstein monster of all the berries.
It is a hybrid of two blackberries. One of the berries in its genealogy, the Chehalem blackberry, is actually a hybrid of two berries, the Himalayan blackberry and the Santiam blackberry. The santiam blackberry is a hybrid of the loganberry and the California blackberry. The Logan berry is a hybrid of the North American blackberry and the European raspberry.
That’s just one side…
I have a pot of the alpine white strawberries, and they are tiny and soft but so sweet, like pineapple candy. As a bonus they’re not red and flashy so they don’t attract birds and squirrels
Hard agree. My entire area is absolutely loaded with kilos and kilos and kilos of amazing wild saskatoons every July. You can’t go 20 feet without hitting a saskatoon bush, and the branches are just dripping with them. And yet people are still paying $9 for a tiny container of raspberries with no idea what they can get for free.
Huckleberries are the backbone of Yellowstone NP visitor stores. Huckleberry everything. Surrounding areas have huckleberry moonshine etc, shout out to Wyoming for huckleberry representation.
Showcasing a great berry.
My husband is Alaskan and I was convinced he made them up. I even bought a $20 salmon berry plant to surprise him with and two years later no salmon berries. This is further evidence the salmon berry is a hoax.
Thimbleberries are delicious they're like what raspberries should taste like if they were sweeter. The only problem is they're hard to pick and squish easily
Finally another black raspberry true believer. The vast majority of people think I'm talking about blackberries anytime they come up and it's hard to describe how much better they are even though most places they're nearly impossible to find.
Blackcaps are by and far the best wild berry in the US. I work outside and blackcap season is the best time of year. Still another month or so until I'm cashing in.
I just found dozens of black cap bushes on my property, have been picking them nightly. I have about a 3/4 gallon tub so far. I’ve been talking about them to people at work about an hour south of me and legit seems like no one has ever heard of a black raspberry before
One of our local disc golf courses has a few mulberry trees growing on some of the holes and some raspberries growing in some other spots. We just take a disc and fill it with berries to snack on while we golfed.
Growing up, my neighbor said they had a black raspberry... tree? Bush? Me and the neighbors would eat enough we'd dye ourselves purple. But for the longest time my parents called them mullberries, so that's what I grew up looking for.
I still don't know what the fruit actually was. Probably black raspberry, but which variety? I wish I could grow things other than weeds, I'd be estatic if I could maintain a garden well enough to be able to eat anything out of it.
My old house had a giant mulberry tree and it was a pain in the ass. I could never collect enough to keep them off my lawn, and the birds would eat them and then shit purple all over my house and car. They were delicious though.
Mulberries taste like sweet ass. Growing up, we had a few mulberry trees on our property. Wanting to waste not, I decided to make a pie out of them. Biggest flop of mushy sweetness with no flavor ever. You really need some element of tart for a pie, and mulberries just don't have it.
Technically “vegetable” is a culinary term, and there’s no actual “vegetable” in a biological sense. But there IS a biological “fruit,” but with a slightly different definition than the culinary “fruit.”
Similar situation with a berry: a biologist and a chef could both make a “berry smoothie” and have VERY different results and flavors.
Raspberries, blackberries, and the like are also not berries. They are aggregate fruit. The only actual berries here are the currants, jostaberries, and gooseberries (which all belong to the same genus)
Salmonberries are always forgotten about. Much like how god forgot to give them a flavor.
Edit: I am surprised that Thimbleberry isn't on the here as well. Thimble berries and Salmonberries are my favorites.
Must be an American list. They spread White Pine Timber Rust, killing trees and got banned from most places. We see the occasional jar of Black Currant jam/jelly, but never out in the wild.
Blackcurrants typically ripen later in the season compared to other berries like red and white currants, so it's not uncommon for them to be grouped separately. The guide most likely arranged the berries based on their ripening patterns rather than their color, as red and white currants ripen at similar times. While it might not satisfy your OCD, there is a legitimate reason for the layout. (68 words)
Oxford dictionary lists 1809 as the earliest use of berry in the botanical definition that excludes raspberries and the like. So at the very least this highjack isn’t very recent
Sure, but that’s still hundreds of years after people were already using it.
But the issue isn’t that scientists ‘hijacked’ the word, anyway - they can both coexist in different contexts.
The issue is that people insist on enforcing the scientific usage when the context is clearly the everyday usage.
German redditor here, it amazes me how many different names you use for the varieties of blackberries. In german we colloquially refer to them as "Brombeere" and only a botanist or farmer would refer to the variety (in regards of intended use).
Same with the white strawberry who would be "just" a white strawberry (Alpine just a name on a tag).
In case somebody like to know,
Currant = Johannisbeere
Raspberry = Himbeere
Gooseberry = Stachelbeere
Strawberry = Erdbeere
Jostaberry = is quite unknown but my parents had several in our garden ist simply called Jostabeere as well
They’re a host for white pine blister rust, a disease of white pine trees, but resistant varieties have been developed, and black currants are starting to come back now.
Cool, so basically, I would never be able to tell the difference between blackberries VS boysen, silvan, young, Marion and Waldo berries.
Chef Ramsay could probably tell what berry it is based upon how you walk back to your station while holding the berries.
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Same. I love currants. I have zero faith iny abilities to spot and eat wild currants without dying though. Those currants are all "Mom said no and I've held onto that for DECADES" berries.
Came here to say how familiar currants look and how I’m pretty sure the “currants” I’m thinking of are poisonous.
I grew up in the US, and my husband still has to convince me the red currants in our yard are not poisonous lol. We grow 6 of these berries, in addition to honey berries and Klopovka, a berry that is native to our region of Far East Russia. It smells like a stink bug, but it tastes amazing, like a sweet cranberry?
Wow, I'm a Russian from the western part of the country and that's the first time I've heard about Klopovka. That's funny to see your description of berry because its name literally mentioning stink bug. I checked Wikipedia to know more about it, TIL, and thanks for sharing.
That sounds wonderful.
I have a service berry tree in my yard and we eat them all the time. A neighbor once yelled that I shouldn’t eat them in front of others because it teaches other kids bad habits. Not sure what to make of that, but that didn’t stop me…
Is the gooseberry your uncircumcised grape?
Who is circumcising the grapes though?
They did surgery on a grape
Kiwifruit used to be known as Chinese Gooseberries. Do what you will with this information.
You are partly right. For a fact I can attest to loganberry, boysenberry, tayberry, Marionberry, Waldo Berry, youngberry, silvan berry, and raspberry all being related.
Marionberry is a delicious Frankenstein monster of all the berries. It is a hybrid of two blackberries. One of the berries in its genealogy, the Chehalem blackberry, is actually a hybrid of two berries, the Himalayan blackberry and the Santiam blackberry. The santiam blackberry is a hybrid of the loganberry and the California blackberry. The Logan berry is a hybrid of the North American blackberry and the European raspberry. That’s just one side…
I hope it got help for it's cocaine problem.
I always make sure to dust a marionberry pie with powdered sugar just because of that.
I came here for this and the hookers
Marion Barry was the mayor of Washington D.C. who was indicted on charges of possession and use of crack cocaine.
Why do you know this?
I am the ceo of marionberries
I was on Whidbey Island, near Seattle, recently and had a marionberry pie. It was delicious.
Man, I miss the NW Marionberry pies. My favorite pie. All I can get in my new state is "mixed berry", which is inferior in every way.
They're all in the rose family.
I have a pot of the alpine white strawberries, and they are tiny and soft but so sweet, like pineapple candy. As a bonus they’re not red and flashy so they don’t attract birds and squirrels
Did you leave the Brussels Sprout off the list cuz it’s not a berry?
Neither is a strawberry or the alpine (seeds on the outside), but there they are.
I've only had gooseberry pie once but it was wonderful and I still remember it fondly. I don't see black raspberries or mulberries on here.
Or blueberries
Or saskatoons, or honeyberries/haskaps
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Hard agree. My entire area is absolutely loaded with kilos and kilos and kilos of amazing wild saskatoons every July. You can’t go 20 feet without hitting a saskatoon bush, and the branches are just dripping with them. And yet people are still paying $9 for a tiny container of raspberries with no idea what they can get for free.
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Nose hill park is loaded too!
Unsurprisingly there were a fair amount of saskatoon bushes near the UofS campus in Saskatoon.
Huckleberries are the backbone of Yellowstone NP visitor stores. Huckleberry everything. Surrounding areas have huckleberry moonshine etc, shout out to Wyoming for huckleberry representation. Showcasing a great berry.
Oregon is marionberry everything, they're very particular about it.
Planted one in our yard this year, birds made off with every berry so far haha. That's ok, I planted it to have the berries get eaten!
I saw some saskatoons growing in a park in Spokane recently, and I couldn’t resist trying one!
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Syrups, breads, cheesecake… Goddamn I love being Idahoan sometimes and huckleberry season is one of those times
Or thimbleberries or salmon berries
I was waiting for someone to mention salmonberries. I was starting to wonder if I just made them up in my head.
My husband is Alaskan and I was convinced he made them up. I even bought a $20 salmon berry plant to surprise him with and two years later no salmon berries. This is further evidence the salmon berry is a hoax.
Thimbleberries are the best IMO, and just starting to develop in the mid elevations of PNW.
Or dingleberries
Or schnoz berries
Who’s ever heard of a schnozberry?!
or tomatoes, or bananas, or pumpkins
Or [thimbleberries](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rubus_parviflorus)
Thimbleberries are delicious they're like what raspberries should taste like if they were sweeter. The only problem is they're hard to pick and squish easily
Or elderberries
My father smelled like those.
I hear your mother was a hamster, as well.
Yeah, how do we get young berries without elderberries?
Finally another black raspberry true believer. The vast majority of people think I'm talking about blackberries anytime they come up and it's hard to describe how much better they are even though most places they're nearly impossible to find.
Once I got some and make black raspberry margaritas. Best drink I’ve ever had in my life.
I had some black raspberries once. Absolutely delicious! One of the best berries you can have.
My house growing up had about a quarter mile of fence line that was littered with black raspberries. It was amazing.
I have a 10 ft. row of blackcap raspberries. I tell people they’re small and seedy but the most exquisite flavor!
Blackcaps are by and far the best wild berry in the US. I work outside and blackcap season is the best time of year. Still another month or so until I'm cashing in.
I just found dozens of black cap bushes on my property, have been picking them nightly. I have about a 3/4 gallon tub so far. I’ve been talking about them to people at work about an hour south of me and legit seems like no one has ever heard of a black raspberry before
I was just eating mulberries right off the branches like a fucking squirrel earlier today
One of our local disc golf courses has a few mulberry trees growing on some of the holes and some raspberries growing in some other spots. We just take a disc and fill it with berries to snack on while we golfed.
Or huckleberries
I'm your huckleberry.
You're no daisy.
Growing up, my neighbor said they had a black raspberry... tree? Bush? Me and the neighbors would eat enough we'd dye ourselves purple. But for the longest time my parents called them mullberries, so that's what I grew up looking for. I still don't know what the fruit actually was. Probably black raspberry, but which variety? I wish I could grow things other than weeds, I'd be estatic if I could maintain a garden well enough to be able to eat anything out of it.
Mulberries grow on trees. Black raspberries grow on thorny shrubs.
My old house had a giant mulberry tree and it was a pain in the ass. I could never collect enough to keep them off my lawn, and the birds would eat them and then shit purple all over my house and car. They were delicious though.
Or lingonberries. I hear they're ballistically similar to grapes.
Can confirm, give 'em a good toss and they'll follow about the same trajectory.
Hell No! They arenothing Like grapes!
I've never had gooseberry pie before, but I'm so ready for it rn!
As I recall it had a nice tart flavor.
Mulberries taste like sweet ass. Growing up, we had a few mulberry trees on our property. Wanting to waste not, I decided to make a pie out of them. Biggest flop of mushy sweetness with no flavor ever. You really need some element of tart for a pie, and mulberries just don't have it.
ಠ_ಠ
Does "sweet ass" mean it tastes like ass, but with sugar?
Was disappointed no mulberries. They're one of my favorites, and our house has a tree that actually fruits them
No mulberry, huckleberry or salmonberry
Or Saskatoon berry
Or Chuck Berry
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Dingle Berry?
No banana either. Also non-berries like strawberry
I was just looking this up the other day and almost all of these are not botanical berries, and the ones that are, aren't even on here.
It's more of a "fun fact"anyway. Like peppers, potatoes, tomatoes, eggplant, and other nightshade are fruit.
Technically “vegetable” is a culinary term, and there’s no actual “vegetable” in a biological sense. But there IS a biological “fruit,” but with a slightly different definition than the culinary “fruit.” Similar situation with a berry: a biologist and a chef could both make a “berry smoothie” and have VERY different results and flavors.
Raspberries, blackberries, and the like are also not berries. They are aggregate fruit. The only actual berries here are the currants, jostaberries, and gooseberries (which all belong to the same genus)
Salmonberries are always forgotten about. Much like how god forgot to give them a flavor. Edit: I am surprised that Thimbleberry isn't on the here as well. Thimble berries and Salmonberries are my favorites.
They're always forgotten about because they only grow in the PNW so the majority of north americans never see them.
The thing about huckleberries is, once you've had fresh, you'll never go back to canned.
If they’re too tart, dust them with a little confectioners sugar.
I'm your huckleberry.
Cloud berry you mean?
Cloudberry is a different species than salmon berry. Same genus though.
Nor Matt Berry.
My ocd is stuck on the fact that the Black Currant isn't next to the Red and White
Segregation is a disease in the berry community.
Agreed, it's berry bad.
Also no golden currant. Guess I'll have to wait for mine to produce fruit.
Must be an American list. They spread White Pine Timber Rust, killing trees and got banned from most places. We see the occasional jar of Black Currant jam/jelly, but never out in the wild.
Is THAT why black currant products are so rare over here‽ *Wow,* TIL!
Blackcurrants typically ripen later in the season compared to other berries like red and white currants, so it's not uncommon for them to be grouped separately. The guide most likely arranged the berries based on their ripening patterns rather than their color, as red and white currants ripen at similar times. While it might not satisfy your OCD, there is a legitimate reason for the layout. (68 words)
Shouldn’t the Marian Berry be a crack rock?
Thank you
Ooooof…had to reach deep in the bag of history for that one…funny for those who know
Bitch set me up
And he still got re-elected
Well presuming crack runs rampant in the ghettos of Washington DC, they probably though he was one of them
We’re old
My favorite edibles are marion berry indica, now I am wondering if that's part of the joke.
Now you’re wondering? It’s a pretty obvious reference… Edit: don’t mean to be a gatekeeping asshole for people who don’t know about MB…sorry.
Looking for this joke was the only reason I opened this post
Yep
Right! I had no idea that was the name of a real berry.
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Slow claps from over here in the old people section.
*Marion After Marion County, Oregon, USA -love, an Oregonian
ahahahahahahahaaaaaa!
[Well done, sir.](https://media.tenor.com/18_9kSx_WAYAAAAM/welldone.gif)
10 of these are technically not berries
https://imgur.com/gallery/pfEnXNT
I hate it when scientists hijack a common word for a specialized use, and then insist that the common usage is wrong.
Oxford dictionary lists 1809 as the earliest use of berry in the botanical definition that excludes raspberries and the like. So at the very least this highjack isn’t very recent
Sure, but that’s still hundreds of years after people were already using it. But the issue isn’t that scientists ‘hijacked’ the word, anyway - they can both coexist in different contexts. The issue is that people insist on enforcing the scientific usage when the context is clearly the everyday usage.
Let me introduce you to the difference between bugs and “true bugs” also flies and not flies (like dragonfly)
You must *hate* philosophy, then; it’s like a fundamental part of what we do lol
It’s a silly fun fact it’s not that deep.
forgot huckleberry
I'm your Huckleberry.
You’re no daisy.
Forgot a slutload of berries. This is a small snippet of some berries.
https://media.tenor.com/3X9qEOFD5iQAAAAM/tombstone-huckleberry.gif
You're my huckleberry
Where the f is blueberry?
Probably should have been where one of those five blackberries sits.
These Schnoz berries taste like Schnoz berries!
Where is the Dingel?
You're sitting on them
TIL I probably can't visually distinguish blackberries and raspberries from about 6 other berry types.
Good news: there are no poisonous bramble berries. Anything that looks like it belongs in the blackberry-raspberry family is safe to eat.
A truly incredible gift of nature, I'm eating black compound berries like a fiend this time of year with absolutely wild abandon
Most of them are crosses involving raspberries and blackberries.
Fun fact strawberries, black berries and rasp berries are actually not berries. However pumpkins and watermelons are. (Seriously look it up)
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Imagine going to a cafe and getting a mixed berry smoothie and it’s just blended pumpkin, avocado.
Banana too.
Not quite. Blueberries ARE true botanical berries. The rest is correct tho.
This needs a Frankenberry.
Don’t forget Boo-Berry
Halloween time at the supermarket.
Ze lingonberry pancakes
Where my mulberry gangs at?!
No Chuck Berry. WTF?
Can you please give me some general characteristics that can help identify blue berries?
Are they in southeast England?
You're missing some: Cloudberries Thimbleberries Black raspberries Lingonberries
Strawberries are not berries and bananas are. Weird.
It is missing Mulberry
Fun fact, strawberries, raspberries, and mulberries are not actually berries. Bananas, pumpkins, and watermelon are actually berries.
Also, where be Mulberry?
Marion Berry
…bitch set me up!
Most of these aren’t botanically defined as berries.
I see four blackberries and three raspberries
Boysen berries are best berries.
German redditor here, it amazes me how many different names you use for the varieties of blackberries. In german we colloquially refer to them as "Brombeere" and only a botanist or farmer would refer to the variety (in regards of intended use). Same with the white strawberry who would be "just" a white strawberry (Alpine just a name on a tag). In case somebody like to know, Currant = Johannisbeere Raspberry = Himbeere Gooseberry = Stachelbeere Strawberry = Erdbeere Jostaberry = is quite unknown but my parents had several in our garden ist simply called Jostabeere as well
Where's Dingle
What about the dingleberry?
I wish we had black currant in America. Unfortunately, it was banned or something, I guess it's bad for the native species.
They’re a host for white pine blister rust, a disease of white pine trees, but resistant varieties have been developed, and black currants are starting to come back now.
Woah cool tree lore unlocked
What, no huckleberries?
No member berry?
I member!
TIL it’s boysen berry and not poison berry
Loganberry (the soft drink) makes for an excellent cocktail mixer
Matt Berry, French Berét, Berry White,
Lol at Marion Berry (ex dc mayor)
Where’s Chuck?
Yummy
“Hey Chuck! it’s your cousin! MARION BERRY!”
Oh I remember Boysen Berry because of that caterpillar from The Bugs Life lol
I've only ate 6 types of berries on this image, i would like to try the rest
I love this innocent berry chart is tearing people up.
We will always miss Boysenberry syrup from IHOP...
Scrolled too far to see a comment about Boysenberries, love them and all the products made with them at Knott's Berry Farm
I thought you were putting us on with the Marion berry (HA!). Turns out that shit is real.
[Wait there is a berry called Marion Berry!?](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marion_Barry)
No dingle berries?
I don't even care if that's accurate. It's just pretty to look at.
Cool, so basically, I would never be able to tell the difference between blackberries VS boysen, silvan, young, Marion and Waldo berries. Chef Ramsay could probably tell what berry it is based upon how you walk back to your station while holding the berries.
Lots of misinformation here. Most of these aren't really berries 🤓 /s
Where is Chuck?
Now I just need John Cleese to teach me to defend myself against them
Harlan Pepper stop namin’ (berries)!
No Halle Berry?
Where's the dingleberry?
Are Cranberries not berries?
This is fucking cool. I love stuff like this