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  • From: mIEKAL aND <qazingulaza@gmail.com>
  • To: North American Fruit Explorers <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [NAFEX] Two Garden Huckleberrys
  • Date: Tue, 24 Aug 2010 10:20:30 -0500

So is there a difference in toxicity between the "garden variety" &
the ones that grow as weeds everywhere around here?

~mIEKAL

On Tue, Aug 24, 2010 at 9:44 AM, Brungardt, Sam (MPCA)
<Sam.Brungardt@state.mn.us> wrote:
> Although I'e have had some people tell me that the raw berries sometimes
> cause intestinal upset, the garden variety of Solanum nigrum, has been
> eaten for generations in Europe.  Known as Schwartzbeeren, it is a valued
> fruit among the Volga Germans, from which I am descended.  It was
> especially valued because it produced a fruit in a hot, rather dry climate
> where few tree or bush fruits did well, on the steppes of southwestern
> Russia.  Its ripe berries can be eaten raw and the Volga Germans use them
> to top Kuchen (and make pies in this country) as well as a sweet filling
> for a pasta, known as Maultaschen, which are something like the dessert
> version of Ukrainian vareniki or Polish pierogi. -- Sam Brungardt, St.
> Paul, Minn. (USDA hardiness zone 4b)




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