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May 16, 2007 : Fruit Medley

Keywords: Ericaceae | Rosaceae | Liliaceae | Thornton Lakes Trail, North Cascades National Park, Washington, USA

PNW Fruit Medley

Botany Photo of the Day will have brief written entries on weekends, holidays and my vacations from April through September. I'm on vacation today. – Daniel

Thank you to codiferous@Flickr for sharing today's photograph (original | BPotD Flickr Group Pool).

codiferous names the fruits from his autumn Washington hike in the comments accompanying the original photograph.

Posted by Daniel Mosquin at May 16, 2007 12:00 AM

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It looks to me like service berries, blueberries, I don't know what and a yellow raspberry. Any guesses?

Posted by: Karen Vaughan at May 16, 2007 6:25 AM

The juicy fresh fruits are very attractive. I don't know of which species these are but in tropics such brightly colourful attractive fruits are usualy poisonous. be careful.

Posted by: Arvind Pujari at May 16, 2007 7:44 AM

The yellow berry looks like a salmonberry to me. Rubus spectablis has both red and yellow-orange berries in southeastern Alaska.

Posted by: Kitty LaBounty at May 16, 2007 8:16 AM

Codiferous names the plants that the berries come from,"From top to bottom: black huckleberry (Vaccinium membranaceum), Alaskan huckleberry (Vaccinium alaskaense), clasping-leaved twisted stalk (Streptopus a[m]plexicaulis), and salmonberry (Rubus spectabilis."

Whether the Streptopus is edible is debatable (some say it tastes like watermelon, others say it is poisonous.) The other three are all definitely edible and enjoyed by many in the region.

Posted by: Eric La Fountaine at May 16, 2007 10:09 AM

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