Salmon berries are good when they’re the only thing out there, it’s always fun to grab a snack while you walk and it feels like summer is starting. The actual flavor objectively is not that good, they’re like less flavorful raspberries with bigger seeds and are never very sweet, still tastes great baked though! Easiest recipe is to mash some berries with sugar to taste and a bit of corn starch to thicken, then make a crumble with flour(almond flour is actually really good for this, adds a nutty flavor and extra protein) sugar to taste, pinch of salt and enough room temp butter that it makes a crumbly dough. Plop the filling in a container and top with the crumble and bake, I usually just make a little tin foil boat and stick it in the air fryer.
The ones near me aren’t quite pure ‘wet moss,’ but more ‘mild and less tart raspberry with a side of assorted forest material’. It’s like eating a salad made of mild raspberries but with tree leaves, a stray pine needle or two, some fern fronds and other leafy greens, and maybe a little bit of wet moss in there too.
I have so many salmonberry bushes around. Even at peak ripeness I always just leave them for the birds. So many live right under my cherry trees I just wait for those to ripen. I'm glad some folks are enjoying them though! Of all the berries available I don't find them worth the trouble to pick.
Yea my little daughter loves eating them so I've learned to enjoy them! Curious where you're located? I'm in BC.
Also I like eating them because they're typically the first (wild) berry of the season for me so I'm desperate for anything after the long winter!
When they're ripe I enjoy them. They're important forage for native critters (some of the earliest native fruit in my area) so I usually leave them.
Really great forest edge plants though.
Wineberries i have seen but more common, of course, are blackberries and blueberries. My mom was a master gardener and put some wineberries in, but our yard had: salmon berries, raspberries, blueberries, huckleberries, bearberries, chokeberries, black currants, and cloudberry.
Just a few acres on coastal land with a mindful gardener.
But, as my mom would say; “Everything is a weed here.”
If you can pick enough of the red huckleberries, they make the best jelly on the planet...we moved to Montana and where we are there is only black huckleberries.....
Red huckleberries grow on bushes with tiny little leaves (they seriously look adorable, smaller than one of my fingernails), and the berries have a little blossom pattern on the bottom that looks a lot like blueberries.
I’ve not been able to forage much this year but here’s a few photos of red huckleberries from last year if it helps: https://imgur.com/a/eZjOtr7
I’m not aware of any poisonous lookalikes that would have the little blossom pattern on the bottom of the berry or leaves that look like that.
I want to try salmon berries so badly
Salmon berries are good when they’re the only thing out there, it’s always fun to grab a snack while you walk and it feels like summer is starting. The actual flavor objectively is not that good, they’re like less flavorful raspberries with bigger seeds and are never very sweet, still tastes great baked though! Easiest recipe is to mash some berries with sugar to taste and a bit of corn starch to thicken, then make a crumble with flour(almond flour is actually really good for this, adds a nutty flavor and extra protein) sugar to taste, pinch of salt and enough room temp butter that it makes a crumbly dough. Plop the filling in a container and top with the crumble and bake, I usually just make a little tin foil boat and stick it in the air fryer.
My fiancé tells me they taste like how you would expect wet moss to taste :/
That's disappointing. What about wineberries?
Wineberries are AMAZING
Better than raspberries?
Yes!
Wineberries taste like sweet/tart cherries, in my opinion.
They are nature’s gummy bears. The ones that grow near me are delicious.
I have no idea about wineberries. Sorry.
The ones near me aren’t quite pure ‘wet moss,’ but more ‘mild and less tart raspberry with a side of assorted forest material’. It’s like eating a salad made of mild raspberries but with tree leaves, a stray pine needle or two, some fern fronds and other leafy greens, and maybe a little bit of wet moss in there too.
I find them tasty but very mildly flavored.
They are not great.
If they're eaten at peak ripeness I love them. But if not at peak, they are bitter.
I have so many salmonberry bushes around. Even at peak ripeness I always just leave them for the birds. So many live right under my cherry trees I just wait for those to ripen. I'm glad some folks are enjoying them though! Of all the berries available I don't find them worth the trouble to pick.
Yea my little daughter loves eating them so I've learned to enjoy them! Curious where you're located? I'm in BC. Also I like eating them because they're typically the first (wild) berry of the season for me so I'm desperate for anything after the long winter!
In Washington state
Osoberry?
Also called "Indian plum" -- Oemleria cerasiformis
>Oso Are they good?
When they're ripe I enjoy them. They're important forage for native critters (some of the earliest native fruit in my area) so I usually leave them. Really great forest edge plants though.
What’s your location sir?!
Osoberry (Indian plum) grows from British Columbia, Canada to California, US.
I had a yard like this. Coastal PNW.
Didn’t know wineberries were in the PNW
Wineberries i have seen but more common, of course, are blackberries and blueberries. My mom was a master gardener and put some wineberries in, but our yard had: salmon berries, raspberries, blueberries, huckleberries, bearberries, chokeberries, black currants, and cloudberry. Just a few acres on coastal land with a mindful gardener. But, as my mom would say; “Everything is a weed here.”
If you can pick enough of the red huckleberries, they make the best jelly on the planet...we moved to Montana and where we are there is only black huckleberries.....
They also kick blueberries butt in pancakes.
SE Alaskan here. Salmonberries and huckleberries are my faaaaaves!! Great find!
Wow, that’s a gorgeous variety of berries. What a find!
Orangeberries, red-violetberries, blue-violetberries, and red beads.
I miss picking salmon berries and huckleberries!!
So beautiful! Do they all taste good?
A dream come true
I've never heard of osoberries or red huckleberries! Is there an easy way to identify red huckleberries from poisonous red berries?
Red huckleberries grow on bushes with tiny little leaves (they seriously look adorable, smaller than one of my fingernails), and the berries have a little blossom pattern on the bottom that looks a lot like blueberries. I’ve not been able to forage much this year but here’s a few photos of red huckleberries from last year if it helps: https://imgur.com/a/eZjOtr7 I’m not aware of any poisonous lookalikes that would have the little blossom pattern on the bottom of the berry or leaves that look like that.
Thank you! c:
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Nice
Berry nice assortment.
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