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[Ginda Fisher <list@ginda.us>]

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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