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  • From: "Wiediger, Alison" <awiediger AT HART.k12.ky.us>
  • To: 'Market Farming' <market-farming AT franklin.oit.unc.edu>
  • Subject: RE: Info on huckleberries?
  • Date: Wed, 18 Apr 2001 11:33:33 -0500


Aha, all the more reason to use botanical nomenclature rather than common
names I guess. So, we probably ARE talking about two different plants.
Glad I wasn't just in "the week after spring break" mode. Alison

> 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.
> Bill Shoemaker
>




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