A few berries gathered close together in a thicket
Lonicera villosa—-blossoms ready to open
L. villosa blossoms
L. villosa fruit
Teaberry blossom ( Gaultheria procumbens) mid summer
Teaberry fruit
Teaberries, photo taken in Nov 2013
Teaberry patch Nov 2013
Moxie plums (Gaultheria hispidula) The leaves from both the Gaultheria shown here make pleasant wintergreen flavoured teas.
Gaultheria hispidula leaves during late fall.
Huckleberries
Huckleberries in Oct
Wild thyme and blueberry
Blueberries
Aronia patch in blossom
Aronia berries, late August
Viburnum cassinoides also known as wild raisin
Viburnum alnifolium, Hobblebush with unripe fruit
Hobblebush with a few ripe black berries at the end of August
Blackberries
Blackberry patch
Blackberry basket
Amelanchier sp, almost 20 varieties in the Maritimes.
Amelanchier berries
young Bristly Gooseberry (Ribes hirtellum)
Dewberry (Rubus pubescens) ripening at the end of June
Bunchberry blossum, up to 20 berries can form from the one flower.
Bunchberries
Bunchberry patch
Raspberries
Highbush cranberries
highbush cranberry clusters in August
Highbush Cranberry in late September
Elderberry blossoms
Chokecherry blossoms
Chokecherries
Mountain Ash
Mountain Ash in its winter coat
Staghorn Sumac
Hawthorn, heavily fruiting
Hawthorn berries
Wild rose petals
Late fall rose hips in the rain
Over-wintering batch of wild roses with plenty of hips still edible
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North America has such a great native fruit resource, beautifully recorded here. A lot of them grow quite well here in Scotland too as we have a similar climate to BC. I’m very fond of serviceberries but still haven’t succeeded with bunchberry.
Bunchberries are very common in the acidity (PH below 5) forest soils of Nova Scotia and the other Canadian martime provinces. Most common in open mixed forest with white birch and also with the plant Maianthemum canadense and then it also can be common under pine if moss is present. I’ve read Bunchberry is difficult to get started even here and spreads slowly. Large lowbush blueberry fields are often surrounded on their borders by thick patches of bunchberries before the hardwood forest of sugar maple, yellow birch and beech are reached. I suspect this is a plant you must plant in various places and it will likely grow best where you least expect it. Best of luck, the flowers are lovely and the fruit offer possibilities.
You have wonderful posts with great pictures I moved to N.B. 8 years ago and have been doing as much as I can to learn more and more about edible plants native to N.B. this is a great resource. Thanks so much 🙂
Thanks Robin, nice to see your comment.