Wild Berries

[andrew_in_idaho]

Found some white mulberries growing wild recently, and it brought about some questions. Are mulberries common in the NW? Aside from huckleberries what are your other favorite berries to forage in the wild? We ended up picking enough for a couple of pies. Apparently the white mulberry is a misnomer as most of the ripe berries were a deep purple.


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[STIKNSTRINGBOW]

I like mulberry, thimble berries, and just about any berry I can pick..
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Actually did not know mulberry...
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Those looked like wild raspberry to me, then I did some googling...

[Twispriver]

I pick huckleberries, black caps and thimble berries but my favorite has to be the little trailing blackberries.

[boneaddict]

I love berries, but don’t ever recall finding mulberries in the woods.  Cool

[buckcanyonlodge]

Had a huge mulberry tree when I was in Yakima. The starlings would swarm the ripe berries. Every car within blocks of that tree had massive purple crap all over them.  Very hard to get off when dried and baked on by the sun.

[Dhoey07]

Don’t forget about elderberrries. Quite a few around in august/September

[geauxtigers]

Family and I went out picking huckleberries last weekend.  Got a fair amount, but there’s a few large swathes of huckleberry bushes that had dried, shriveled blossoms and no berries.  Disappointing

Anyway, we also came across a TON of these berry bushes.  I don’t know what they are, and am wondering if anyone here can help.  Berries were still pretty firm so I’m hoping they may ripen into something edible and darker…




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[Boss .300 winmag]

Family and I went out picking huckleberries last weekend.  Got a fair amount, but there’s a few large swathes of huckleberry bushes that had dried, shriveled blossoms and no berries.  Disappointing

Anyway, we also came across a TON of these berry bushes.  I don’t know what they are, and am wondering if anyone here can help.  Berries were still pretty firm so I’m hoping they may ripen into something edible and darker…




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Mountain Ash Berry, bears like them I’ve noticed latter in the season when the other berries are gone.

[geauxtigers]

Thanks Boss.  I guess I know where I should be for bears when they’re really fat a little later in the fall!

[Boss .300 winmag]

Thanks Boss.  I guess I know where I should be for bears when they’re really fat a little later in the fall!

Next outing start looking to see if they are being eaten, bears pull down the branches to get at the upper berries breaking them up pretty good.

[nwwanderer]

And some call it a Rowan tree, boat load of story and myth associated