Berry identification

[n_mathews13]

This has been on here before
But I would like some input on what berry this is from
I almost certain it’s from a low hanging plant with a few berries. It’s a deep red when ripe
Or a single berry plant that can be yellow or orange.

[hunter399]

Being red like that,looks like rose hips.
Those yellow ones.
Are the yellow ones seeds,must be seeds.

[n_mathews13]

They are seeds
But there are some berries that are whole still and they are a orange or red berry about the size of a huckleberry maybe smaller

[hunter399]

I'm not sure if bear it those kink nik nik berry's.
Sorry I don't know how to spell it.
Also not sure if they eat snow berry's.

I would think when berry crops are low,right before winter.
They probably eat just about anything that doesn't make them sick.

Looks fairly healthy though. Could of been full of worms.

Also mountain ash berry's,I'm not sure if bears eat those too,maybe they have an orange color to them.

Also wanna say congrats 👏

[jrebel]

Looks like rose hips and sow berries….but super hard to tell from the picture. 

Knick Knick (spelling) are often referred to as bear berries and bears love them.  I find they are usually a later berry and are likely not ripe yet….but who knows in your neck of the woods. 

Could also be a type of wild plumb.   

What did it taste like??  That would help with identification??   

[MeepDog]

The black ones are fly berries.

[buckfvr]

If you say size of huckleberries, Id lean towards kinnikinnic,  also known as common berries.  Definitely not snow berries or rose hips.  I have a bunch of wild rose (and snow berries) on my place and around it and they usually dont get bothered until after a heavy freeze or three and are much larger.  Even then, leaves from wild rose are usually browsed first.  Snow berries same thing, leaves first except for bears who typically eat all berries the same way, leaves and all at the same time.

[n_mathews13]

I’ll do some looking around this weekend for a pic. I’m not to sure it’s any of these.

[nwwanderer]

Happy blow flies, need more for a content guess

[boneaddict]

Mountain ash and rose hips from what I see.   Kninnickinik  are deep red and usually lots of cutting foliage mixed in with, and just a wee bit early I think. 

[n_mathews13]

This is the majority of what in that I believe

[Brute]

Looks to be False  Solomon

[LDennis24]

Sure look like rose hips to me...

[n_mathews13]

It’s not
It has lots of juice and a round pit inside

[Timberstalker]

That plant is definitely not rose hips.

[Caseknife]

If those are the pits of the berries, then they are choke cherries, only thing with that size of seed.

[Timberstalker]

I’m sure it is, but this is from eastern Washington, isn’t it?
@n_mathews13

[n_mathews13]

I’m sure it is, but this is from eastern Washington, isn’t it?
@n_mathews13

Yes,sorry. I should have said that

[Boss .300 winmag]

I’ve seen that plant before but don’t know what it is. There are plant identification apps that you can get.

[n_mathews13]

If those are the pits of the berries, then they are choke cherries, only thing with that size of seed.

Not saying it isn’t, but I don’t think it is. It could be a different kind of choke cherry I guess
That plant is full grown I believe

[buckcanyonlodge]

Rose hip bear crap...and the rose bush it ate the hips from.

[buckcanyonlodge]

Yours is looking a lot like rose hips once you get a pic to compare it with

[n_mathews13]

This poop has “fertilizer “ looking “pits” not seeds
And sometimes the pits are white or a yellow color

[n_mathews13]

I never took a pick of the piles but it did
T look any different then what’s in his gut.

[LDennis24]

I guess I read it wrong, I thought I was looking at yellow seeds and red rinds in a pulp pile from a stomach. Are some of those orange and yellow things full berries?

[LDennis24]

Well either way rose hips are damn good eating and full of vitamin C! Try them sometime. Do they look like mountain ash berries?

[n_mathews13]

I guess I read it wrong, I thought I was looking at yellow seeds and red rinds in a pulp pile from a stomach. Are some of those orange and yellow things full berries?

Yes there can be a orange
In the top right of that gut pile is a full berry
Wasn’t uncommon to see that
One bear we tracked this year that was a helpful tip in tracking

[Caseknife]

Mountain Ash, Sorbus americana, seeds are light brown, oblong and compressed, which those seeds are not. Chokecherry, Prunus virginianus, seeds are just like pie cherry seeds, except there is not as much fruit around the seed and they can vary from bright red to purple, it is a shrubby tree 10-12' tall.  The picture of the Solomon Seal is not what the bear ate.  Rose hips are full of multiple little seeds just like Oregon grape.

[LDennis24]

I figured it out, it's creole succotash

[Buckhunter24]

Its fairybell