Monday, August 23, 2010

Do You Know What Kind....

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...of berry this is?? I do now. I had to look it up because I had never seen it before. We found it in a slough at the mouth of the Noatak River.

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6 comments:

Missy said...

Looks like soapberry to me, but not 100% sure. Usually found in dry areas, woodlands and gravel bars. Used to be used as a dessert topping by adding sugar to whipped froth of the berries, as it is bitter tasting.

Meandering Michael said...

Yup, that's soap berry! "Indian Ice Cream" is delish!

Cathy said...

Yup, it's soapberry.

Finnskimo said...

Hello...soapberry! Don't you have a copy of Anore Jones, "Plants that we eat?!" The new ones are over at the New Park Service Museum. :)

Gramma 2 Many said...

Well, being from the "outside," I would have thought huckleberry.
We have them down here that look like that:)

Becky said...

I've never heard of them, but they look a little like the red huckleberries we used to pick in Washington as kids.