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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: Mon, 23 Apr 2001 08:57:53 -0500



>Alex--I think that's a form of a tomatillo--grows in a husk, but is smaller
>and more yellow. (Physalis heterophylla or P. peruviana rather than P.
>philadelphica or P. ixocarpa.) I grew them a long time ago (25-30 yrs) and
>then stopped. --Probably because there was no market for them. I think I
got
>the seed from someone like Gurney's. The huckleberries that caused
>yesterday's confusion are dark, almost black, berries.
>
>Miranda


There are several of those solonaceous species that are marginal food crops.
Garden huckleberry, ground cherry and tomatillo are all examples. Each is a
distinctly different plant but similar. There are also a number of weedy
relatives that look similar but are not so edible. I've really never done a
study of them so I can't elaborate. I've just run across them in the
literature and the field.

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





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