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sweet gale (Myrica gale), slightly toothed on fatter end of the leaf. Leaves are fragrant when crushed.black huckleberry (Gaylussacia baccata), western variety is a vaccinium (blueberry) which tastes like bog cranberry. You could buy them canned in British Columbia when I lived there.
Yes, back huckleberry (Gaylussacia baccata). I've never seen many berries on them to bother picking compared to a blueberry species.
Yes, similar fruit, but different genus. The fruit will fall off soon, kind of hold on like high-bush cranberry (viburnum trilobum) do in winter. Our true blueberries are vaccinium species, like the western huckleberries and the bog cranberries.A similar blueberry type fruit is serviceberries which flowers before pin cherries in the spring on fence rows and old grown up orchards and such. Lots of people around here say I saw the cherries in bloom this week. It's usually serviceberries. They don't set a lot of fruit despite all the flowers.
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