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  • From: "Bill Shoemaker" <wshoemak AT inil.com>
  • To: "Market Farming" <market-farming AT franklin.oit.unc.edu>
  • Subject: RE: Info on huckleberries?
  • Date: Wed, 18 Apr 2001 11:35:24 -0500




>I've been following this thread, and wonder whether we are all talking
about
>the same plant. What Alex is describing sounds like a bramble
>It is not the same as the plant
>described in the first post which sounds like a nightshade>
>Alison Wiediger, Au Naturel Farm
>


There are two different plants called huckleberries. One is a relative
of blueberries, a perennial ericaceous shrub that, like blueberries, grows
in low pH soils as an understory plant. Unlike blueberries, it has several
large seeds in the berry. It isn't very common.

Garden huckleberry is a solonaceous imitation of a blueberry and is not
really a huckleberry at all. However, it's easier to find than a true
huckleberry so it contributes to a lot of confusion. It is an annual, suited
to growing like a tomato plant. It will reseed itself so be careful not to
allow too many fruit to decompose on the ground. I don't care much for it.

Bill Shoemaker
Sr Research Specialist, Food Crops
Univ of Illinois - St Charles Hort Research Center





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