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  • From: Michael Dossett <phainopepla@yahoo.com>
  • To: North American Fruit Explorers <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [NAFEX] re partrigeberry cloudberry and salmonberry
  • Date: Wed, 25 Jan 2006 18:38:47 -0800 (PST)

Wintergreen is closely related to Salal. It is in the
genus Gualtheria...

Michael

--- Ginda Fisher <list@ginda.us> wrote:

> I grow a ground cover that is called partridge
> berry. It might be
> related to cranberry, but it's a different plant.
> Of course, the
> mountain cranberry is very closely related to the
> common cranberry,
> but the fruit is quite different. The one I grow
> has "edible"
> berries, but they aren't worth the bother. Like
> mountain cranberries
> they have a waxy texture and little flavor. They
> are very small, and
> there aren't very many on any one plant.
>
> Wintergreen is different from what I call partridge
> berry - and I
> don't think it's even vaccinium.
>
> names, names, names.
>
> Ginda
>
> On Jan 25, 2006, at 8:29 PM,
> martha_davis@highstream.net wrote:
>
> > I always thought that partrige berry was another
> name for
> > wintergreen. I've
> > eaten them & liked them, but I have a hard time
> imagining them as a
> > pie. More
> > like mints in berry form. The cloudberry I had in
> Norway is
> > certainly not the
> > same as the Pacific northwest salmonberry although
> fruit structure
> > and color
> > are somewhat similar.
> > Martha
> >
> >
> >
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